[PROBLEM] Upgrade to Beta troubles on usb install

[Jan]

54, no the data was lost, long before you replied (thanks for that, btw!) - but in a more general manner, I doubt following the upgrade procedure from the developer's blog with such a disastrous outcome can count as a mistake _I_ made. Running xbian from a usb disk is not such an edge case, that it would seem too much work to at least issue a warning for those users.
This is very, very frustrating - how could somebody think, silently repartitioning, reformatting and writing to a disk, would be an operation so safe, that a warning about the upcoming procedure would be unnecessary.

I mean, I do not want to be unthankful, because the makers of xbian certainly invest a lot of time and energy into their project. But once you get a certain user base one must also conceive, that a certain kind of user friendliness (not erasing and rewriting disks without warning, for example) is expected. After all xbian in not seen as a hack and treated with less levels of suspicion by its users.

An upgrade procedure of a consumer product should be regarded as safe. It should tests for untreated cases, and exit if one is found.

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Quote:Your media was on a flash drive or were you trying to run root from an HD?

/boot was on a sd card, all other partitions were on an attached usb hard drive.