well, it was an uncontroled situation... I did an install, installed a bunch of upgrades, made some other changes, and decided I needed to start over. so then I reinstalled from the iso, and decided to take the quick way out and not reformat or erase the existing, but just to install over the top of it. I watched the install status and was puzzeled when it looked to me as if it was making an inventory of the existing files... and then selectivly copying files, but I thought naw, that couldn't be, I must be misinterpeting what I am seeing.
But once the installer was finished, I had an unbootable os. so yeah, I guess it was doing a selective copy instead of an erase everything. Could it be the the Resume Install sequence is getting triggered instead of an erase sequence? I then started over and manually erased everything in the partition and did the install again and it worked. I am working on doing a repro of this using a controled environment in vbox. But it is a lenghty process and am also juggling other obligations at the same time, so it is taking me a little while to get this done, sorry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296071 Title: install over existing does not delete old - result in corrupt install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1296071/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
