[plug] Ubuntu - baaahhh!!!!! Humbug

[Mike Holland]

Richard Meyer wrote:
> and both distros insisted that I hadn't
> allocated a root partition, even though I could see it there 

I ran into that same bug. Its a bit frustrating, but a quick google gave 
a work-around. Just delete and then re-create the root partition
(you will be reformatting it anyway.)

> assure you that if the lappy belonged to Canonical, Mr Shuttleworth
> would be crying over the expense of piecing all the molecules back
> together at this moment.

A bit over-dramatic?