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Nexus 7 installer gets stuck on 'Erasing Boot Partition" help what to do next?

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I have tried installing the Ubuntu Touch with the Nexus 7 Ubuntu Core installer on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit in a VMWare virtual machine.

It looks like its stuck on Erasing boot partition.
I have read elsewhere that someone else had this problem:
Nexus 7 installer gets stuck on 'Erasing Boot Partition"

But what I dont know is, can I disconnect my Nexus 7 and reboot it, or will it not be able to boot into the Android Fastboot recovery screen anymore?

Also is it safe right now to cancel the Ubuntu Touch installer and try again or try the manual steps?

Just want to know whats safe to do and how to fix my problem. :)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also is this the wrong guide?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation

Okay so I want this guide I think:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install

Is it safe to cancel the first one and just start the second one in the current state my device is in?
Its still powered on and showing the fastboot android logo / menu?

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answered 2 Years ago ibuteking · Accepted Answer

I posted on XDA and someone confirmed there that Boot Partition is fine, but bootloader is not.

Turns out that it only crashed erasing the boot partition which is awesome sauce.
So everything is fine.

I was using the wrong installer anyway and Ubuntu Touch worked fine.

Just a heads up to anyone else who tries to install Ubuntu Desktop onto there Nexus 7 if it freezes while saying erasing boot partition, just cancel and then reflash what ever you want to get back to normal. fastboot will work fine still.

However, interestingly enough, I disconnected and re-connected it to windows and tried to run flash-all and it failed.

So... if the bootloader was fked at that point but still running in memory I wouldnt have been able to push a new one anyway. I had to reboot the device before I could run flash-all again.... :(

Im sure theres probably a way but yeah, if you find yourself in that situation, dont power down and think carefully before you act.

Glad it was just the partition.

P.S. Ubuntu Touch is lame sauce, I know its an alpha but half the apps are just screenshots... pretty lame guys.