[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2009-02-18 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
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Re: [Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2009-02-17 Thread zosX
Yes. Please close this bug report. I don't want to help any more
people troubleshoot their messed up partition tables. :P

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2009-02-17 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
zosx, from the comments it seems your problem has been resolved. can we
close this bug report?

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2009-01-31 Thread John O'Neall
Oops, zosX is correct. My problem is a much simpler one. I didn't have
the directory created for the mount point. Don't know how that was
forgotten.

My bad. Sorry. And thanks.

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Re: [Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2009-01-31 Thread zosX
I hate to say it but your problem has nothing to do with the partition
table problems people were having. It seems like your table is fine.
Have you tried manually adding the partition to fstab? I mean why is
it failing? Does a mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mount/Windows work for
instance? Just saying something doesn't work really doesn't give any
insight into the problem. I think like a help forum would be a better
place to go or perhaps finding someone with a similar problem in the
bugtraq as yours.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:11 AM, John O'Neall  wrote:
> I also cannot access my Windows partition. It is reported correctly by
> fdisk
>
> $ sudo fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xc435
>
>   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *   1  65  522081   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2  66137010482412+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda313711892 4192965   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda41893   33744   2558511905  Extended
> /dev/sda51893841952428096   83  Linux
> /dev/sda684208680 2096451   83  Linux
> /dev/sda78681   1703567111506   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8   17036   33744   134215011   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 1200 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x9dc96e9e
>
>   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   1   7   561966  FAT16
> /dev/sdb2   *   8816665537167+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sdb38167   1458951592747+   5  Extended
> /dev/sdb58167   1135325599546   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb6   11354   1288312289693+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb7   12884   1441312289693+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb8   14414   14589 1413688+  83  Linux
>
>
> as /dev/sdb2, and parted sees it ok, with no obvious problems with
> primary partitions:
>
> (parted) print all
> Model: ATA WDC WD1200JD-75G (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 120GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number  Start   End SizeType  File system  Flags
>  1  32.3kB  57.6MB  57.5MB  primary   fat16
>  2  57.6MB  67.2GB  67.1GB  primary   ntfs boot
>  3  67.2GB  120GB   52.8GB  extended
>  5  67.2GB  93.4GB  26.2GB  logical   ext3
>  6  93.4GB  106GB   12.6GB  logical   ext3
>  7  106GB   119GB   12.6GB  logical   ext3
>  8  119GB   120GB   1448MB  logical   ext3
>
>
> Model: ATA ST3320620A (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number  Start   End SizeType  File system  Flags
>  1  32.3kB  535MB   535MB   primary   ext3 boot
>  2  535MB   11.3GB  10.7GB  primary   ext3
>  3  11.3GB  15.6GB  4294MB  primary   linux-swap
>  4  15.6GB  278GB   262GB   extended
>  5  15.6GB  69.2GB  53.7GB  logical   ext3
>  6  69.2GB  71.4GB  2147MB  logical   ext3
>  7  71.4GB  140GB   68.7GB  logical   ext3
>  8  140GB   278GB   137GB   logical   ext3
>
> I am using the current (31 Jan 2009) release
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:Ubuntu 8.10
> Release:8.10
> Codename:   intrepid
>
> So is there a solution for this or not? I am a recent immigrant from
> Kubuntu. During the installation, I did not change anything or tell it
> to use sdb partitions, as this is the way it is done for Kubutnu
> installation. Hope this was not an error.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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> Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives
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>
> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> When I install the new beta and get to the manual partition editor it shoes 
> my SATA drive as having no partition table. When I open the same partition in 
> fdisk from the installer CD it shows the partition map. The chipset is the 
> sis180 raid SATA controller (though I suspect the hardware driver is not at 
> issue). It looks like there is just something in my partition table that the 
> installer does not like. I tried rewriting the table from fdisk to no avail. 
> It still refuses to show me the existing partitions in the installer. My 
> drive is mapped like this:
>
> Primary Partition --> Windows XP
> Extended partition -
>
> 1. Ubuntu 8.04
> 2. Swap
>
> Pretty basic.
>
> I didn't see that anyone else was having this probem with Ibex and I 
> specifically remember 8.04 seeing my windows partition when I installed last 
> on this 

[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2009-01-31 Thread John O'Neall
I also cannot access my Windows partition. It is reported correctly by
fdisk

$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc435

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *   1  65  522081   83  Linux
/dev/sda2  66137010482412+  83  Linux
/dev/sda313711892 4192965   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda41893   33744   2558511905  Extended
/dev/sda51893841952428096   83  Linux
/dev/sda684208680 2096451   83  Linux
/dev/sda78681   1703567111506   83  Linux
/dev/sda8   17036   33744   134215011   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 1200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9dc96e9e

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   1   7   561966  FAT16
/dev/sdb2   *   8816665537167+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb38167   1458951592747+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb58167   1135325599546   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6   11354   1288312289693+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb7   12884   1441312289693+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb8   14414   14589 1413688+  83  Linux
 

as /dev/sdb2, and parted sees it ok, with no obvious problems with
primary partitions:

(parted) print all
Model: ATA WDC WD1200JD-75G (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End SizeType  File system  Flags
 1  32.3kB  57.6MB  57.5MB  primary   fat16 
 2  57.6MB  67.2GB  67.1GB  primary   ntfs boot 
 3  67.2GB  120GB   52.8GB  extended
 5  67.2GB  93.4GB  26.2GB  logical   ext3  
 6  93.4GB  106GB   12.6GB  logical   ext3  
 7  106GB   119GB   12.6GB  logical   ext3  
 8  119GB   120GB   1448MB  logical   ext3  


Model: ATA ST3320620A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End SizeType  File system  Flags
 1  32.3kB  535MB   535MB   primary   ext3 boot 
 2  535MB   11.3GB  10.7GB  primary   ext3  
 3  11.3GB  15.6GB  4294MB  primary   linux-swap
 4  15.6GB  278GB   262GB   extended
 5  15.6GB  69.2GB  53.7GB  logical   ext3  
 6  69.2GB  71.4GB  2147MB  logical   ext3  
 7  71.4GB  140GB   68.7GB  logical   ext3  
 8  140GB   278GB   137GB   logical   ext3  

I am using the current (31 Jan 2009) release

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 8.10
Release:8.10
Codename:   intrepid

So is there a solution for this or not? I am a recent immigrant from
Kubuntu. During the installation, I did not change anything or tell it
to use sdb partitions, as this is the way it is done for Kubutnu
installation. Hope this was not an error.

Thanks for any help.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-31 Thread BrianS
also, fdisk shows this.

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6000

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1  12131710485760   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2   *1317   12875928388807  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3   16475   2432263032308+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4   *   23995   24322 2620416c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/sdb: 4043 MB, 4043309056 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7750 * 512 = 3968000 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb0bcd68e

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   ?  415919  447748   123339962   78  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
 phys=(518, 102, 15) logical=(415918, 36, 50)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
 phys=(743, 0, 62) logical=(447747, 120, 15)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2   ?   55855  155943   387841909+  10  OPUS
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
 phys=(205, 7, 0) logical=(55854, 42, 14)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
 phys=(920, 235, 50) logical=(155942, 71, 34)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3   ?  241234  488877   959615034   8b  Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
 phys=(260, 125, 54) logical=(241233, 109, 56)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
 phys=(893, 46, 60) logical=(488876, 58, 35)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4   ?43984406   32768a  OS/2 Boot Manager
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
 phys=(269, 111, 50) logical=(4397, 31, 49)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
 phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(4405, 88, 50)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-31 Thread BrianS
I tried partition magic, but it does not work with vista unfortunately.
Then I realized you need to use sudo in front of cfdisk.  using that, I
getFATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final
partial cylinder

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Re: [Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread zosX
Ohpartition magic may be able to straighten that out too. Don't know if
the DOS version will see your drive but the windows install should be able
too

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Mark Bassett 
wrote:

> Yeah I meant Wubi. Try deleting them in windows since it sees all the
> partitions and can probably manipulate them without issue. I'm guessing that
> it was a windows install on that disk anyways to begin with. I've never seen
> a partition table that cfdisk couldn't mangle back together so all I can
> wish you really is luck. Hope you have a big external you can make images to
> just in case. =)
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:23 PM, BrianS  wrote:
>
>> If you could tell me how to delete it, I would be more than willing to.
>> The only thing on the hard drive that I do not want to lose is the
>> recovery partition. As for the others, I have nothing on them that I
>> want to keep that badly, and the recovery makes it easy for reinstalling
>> windows.  If you are talking about wubi, I would rather just not deal
>> with windows except for when I need it for using visual studio for
>> school assignments.
>>
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>> Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278159
>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>> of the bug.
>>
>> Status in Ubuntu: New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> When I install the new beta and get to the manual partition editor it
>> shoes my SATA drive as having no partition table. When I open the same
>> partition in fdisk from the installer CD it shows the partition map. The
>> chipset is the sis180 raid SATA controller (though I suspect the hardware
>> driver is not at issue). It looks like there is just something in my
>> partition table that the installer does not like. I tried rewriting the
>> table from fdisk to no avail. It still refuses to show me the existing
>> partitions in the installer. My drive is mapped like this:
>>
>> Primary Partition --> Windows XP
>> Extended partition -
>>
>> 1. Ubuntu 8.04
>> 2. Swap
>>
>> Pretty basic.
>>
>> I didn't see that anyone else was having this probem with Ibex and I
>> specifically remember 8.04 seeing my windows partition when I installed last
>> on this drive. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the lack of logs or
>> screen shots as I don't have many good ways to capture from the installer
>> CD.
>>
>> -zosX
>>
>
>

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Re: [Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread zosX
Yeah I meant Wubi. Try deleting them in windows since it sees all the
partitions and can probably manipulate them without issue. I'm guessing that
it was a windows install on that disk anyways to begin with. I've never seen
a partition table that cfdisk couldn't mangle back together so all I can
wish you really is luck. Hope you have a big external you can make images to
just in case. =)

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:23 PM, BrianS  wrote:

> If you could tell me how to delete it, I would be more than willing to.
> The only thing on the hard drive that I do not want to lose is the
> recovery partition. As for the others, I have nothing on them that I
> want to keep that badly, and the recovery makes it easy for reinstalling
> windows.  If you are talking about wubi, I would rather just not deal
> with windows except for when I need it for using visual studio for
> school assignments.
>
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> Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278159
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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>
> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> When I install the new beta and get to the manual partition editor it shoes
> my SATA drive as having no partition table. When I open the same partition
> in fdisk from the installer CD it shows the partition map. The chipset is
> the sis180 raid SATA controller (though I suspect the hardware driver is not
> at issue). It looks like there is just something in my partition table that
> the installer does not like. I tried rewriting the table from fdisk to no
> avail. It still refuses to show me the existing partitions in the installer.
> My drive is mapped like this:
>
> Primary Partition --> Windows XP
> Extended partition -
>
> 1. Ubuntu 8.04
> 2. Swap
>
> Pretty basic.
>
> I didn't see that anyone else was having this probem with Ibex and I
> specifically remember 8.04 seeing my windows partition when I installed last
> on this drive. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the lack of logs or
> screen shots as I don't have many good ways to capture from the installer
> CD.
>
> -zosX
>

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread BrianS
If you could tell me how to delete it, I would be more than willing to.
The only thing on the hard drive that I do not want to lose is the
recovery partition. As for the others, I have nothing on them that I
want to keep that badly, and the recovery makes it easy for reinstalling
windows.  If you are talking about wubi, I would rather just not deal
with windows except for when I need it for using visual studio for
school assignments.

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Re: [Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread zosX
I'd still try to delete that extended partition and recreate it. Sounds like
your partition table is pretty screwed to me. Rewriting it with windows or
something might help. I don't think anything will work for you without
changes to the table somehow. Unallocated space doesn't just suddenly appear
or your table became suddenly corrupt. :P You can always recreate the FAT32
partition at the end for the media you might need to make the volume label
the same, but I doubt the size matters as long as it is FAT32..have you
thought about installing ubuntu on your windows partiton and boot selected
with windows? :)

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread BrianS
when i type cfdisk into the terminal, it gives FATAL ERROR: Cannot open
disk drive. Press any key to exit cfdisk. That first 87MB partition
appeared a few days ago, I am not sure why. The media direct has to be
on a seperate partition as it allows you to play music and videos
without having to load an entire operating system.  Parted tells me
"Error: Can't have overlapping partitions. " again, cfdisk just tells me
FATAL ERROR

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Re: [Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread zosX
Sure. Make sure that your file table is correct and in proper order. That
was my initial problem. I believe that I used cfdisk to show the partitions.
Make sure that any extended partitions only contain logical drives. I had a
logical drive somehow marked as a primary partition. Changing the bit
allowed gparted to read the table correctly.  It should throw a warning on
such problems versus the silent approach, but I guess that doesn't really
make it a bug. I'm looking at your partition table now and the first
partition seems to just be unused (that 87megs), you can leave that. It is
pretty normal to have slack or unallocated space at the beginning or ending
of a drive, though 87 megs is kind of a large chunk. I'm guessing that grub
at least works off the boot partition. First of all the windows logical
volume manager is showing you all of your partitions and unallocated space.
The fdisk from linux is only showing you partitions that are actually
formatted and allocated. Thus the FAT partition at the end shows up. That
2.5 gig partition surely could be backed up to another partition can it
not?  I would suggest just trying to reduce the partitions at the end to 0
and simply deleting the whole extended partition, leaving just your dell
recovery partition and the vista install intact. It will at least reduce the
number of partitions that may be causing you problems. What does parted from
the command line say? Overlapping partitions? Try opening the drive in
cfdisk and doing a print (key P).  It will tell you what the type of
partition is and everything. Having that blank space with an extended
partition following with more blank space and then a logical partition just
might be compounding your issues. Why not make an extended partition to
encompass everything after Vista and then break it into logical partitions?
Three logical partitions, linux, swap, media.  You can boot linux from any
partition with grub or lilo. Cfdisk is probably going to really become your
good friend here.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread BrianS
Sorry for the many posts. This is what vista displays all my drives as,
if it helps with what I stated before.  I would like to put ubuntu back
on the free space + unallocated, but keep vista,media direct, and
recovery. Thank you very much

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread BrianS
Looking at what zosX  has said about the overlapping, I am wondering
which one of these do I delete and how do I do that? Thank you very
much.

I have a dell XPS m1530 with one partition being 10gb of recovery. one
partition being 2.5gb for media direct and the other is vista. I would
like to keep these 3, but am not sure how to determine which one i don't
need.  The rest of my harddrive is either free space or unallocated.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-12-30 Thread BrianS
Has anybody figured out a way around this? I royally screwed up my sound
driver and decided I would just install Intrepid. I had been using
hardy. I just formatted the partition that that hardy was on and now I
have it as free space. Yet when I go to install, the only option is to
format the entire drive. Is there a way to keep the existing partitions
and install to the free space? My computer seems so empty without ubuntu
:(

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-11-06 Thread Milan
I have the same problem with the final release of Intrepid Ibex.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-11-05 Thread Stefano Lampis
still affects 8.10 final release. this is a very unlikely bug

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Re: [Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-11-02 Thread RimasK
Problem does not exist for me in kubuntu 8.10 final.


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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-28 Thread zosX
Actuall I fail altogether.  You cannot have a primary partition existing
in a extended partition.  Don't know why I didn't see that right away.
I also have no clue as to how that happened.  Partition table
corruption?  Strange.  Deleting the partition in cfdisk makes it
readable in gparted.  Issue solved.  Perhaps the devs at gparted should
give an error in the gui if the table somehow seems to overlap. Sorry to
be a bother at such a busy time for ubuntu devs. I'm really looking
foward to intrepid ibex though!

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-28 Thread zosX
Partition Table for /dev/sdb

   First   Last
 # Type   Sector  Sector   OffsetLength   Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
-- --- --- --- -- ---  
 1 Primary   0   139588784 63   139588785 HPFS/NTFS (07)   Boot
 2 Primary   139588785   160071659  020482875 Extended (05)None
 5 Logical   139588785   156874724126#   17285940 Linux (83)   None
 3 Primary   156874725   160071659  0 3196935 Linux swap / So (82) None


I fail to see overlap here.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-28 Thread zosX
Sorry for all the comments (squeaky wheel, hehe).  Also you might want
to notice that the drive sizes are listed differently between
cfdisk/fdisk and gparted.  I think therein lies a clue.  The ONLY
software that refuses to correctly report the drive capacity and the
partition table so far is gparted and the ubuntu installer.  This is
with the 32-bit installer.  Haven't tried the 64-bit, nor would I really
care to be honest.  Athlon64-3000,sis raid180 serial ata, with the not
so hot, not so bad sis (740?) AMD64 chipset.  Any input would be
appreciated as I really don't know where to begin to look when the core
utilities and the kernel are giving me the results I would
expet


Ok, so I just open parted from the command line, and here is what I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 1.8.9
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.   


well I created the table with the 8.04 installer...why the hell would I 
have overlapping partitions now?  Any way I could fix this?  I could grow the 
NTFS partition the encompass the whole disk and then just shrink it..IF 
gparted worked Don't tell me I'm going to have whip out the trusty 
partition magic.  what is this the year 2000 again?

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-28 Thread zosX
Same problem on the release candidate.  cfdisk is now on the iso, and
that also seems to report the correct table information.  I think I can
safely rule out that there is something wrong with my partition table.
Isn't the installer partitioning utility based on gparted?  Both show
nothing just an empty drive of unallocated space.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-27 Thread RC Howe
This works for me now that I downloaded the latest version. Yay.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-24 Thread RimasK
Confirmed on Kubuntu Intrepid RC, and this time, it shows only white
blank space (as if there are no hdd's).

This is on a HP Pavilion dv6018ea laptop, the HDD is SATA, and is
partitioned into two partitions: one for WinXP, one for WinVista.

Haven't had this problem on this laptop in any previous version of
Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-12 Thread zosX
Stupid windowshere is the file :)


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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-12 Thread zosX
Scratch that. I just didn't see the file. Here you go:

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-12 Thread zosX
The latest snapshot still does not show my partitions. Ubuntu's console
fdisk shows them fine while the installer and gparted do not. Seeing as
how I made the partitions with gparted in the first place, there should
not be a conflict here. Writing the table from the console fdisk does
nothing to alleviate the problem. I went to attach a screenshot, but
apparently it was never saved to my NTFS partition. (Probably mounted
read only) Though the file manager showed it as being saved on the
partition. (another bug? ;)  Oh yeah, the NTFS partition I mounted was
on the drive that does not show the partition table under gparted. So I
guess it shows up in /proc/partitions, which means that there is a bug
in gparted and by extension ubuntu's installer. If I remember correctly
I tried the text installer to no avail as well. Kind of a bummer for
sure. If someone needs a screenshot to confirm, I'd be happy to go back
and produce one.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-11 Thread Rob

I didn't get a chance to try 20081008, but it the 20081009.1 snapshot worked 
fine.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-10 Thread zosX
Did the 10/08 snapshot fix it yet? Seems like they had this bug before
in 7.04 from reading through the bug reports. Perhaps it is the same bug
rearing its ugly head again.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-08 Thread Rob

I'm having a similar/related problem.  I used yesterday's (10/7) snapshot 
install CD, amd64 server (text installer), and the install process fails at the 
partitioning step.  I was able to use a shell on another tty to partition my hd 
(/dev/sda), but even once partitioned, the installer doesn't see them, won't do 
anything with them.  They are visible in /proc/partitions.

I have the 10/8 snapshot and will try again tonight.

This is to be a fresh installation.

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[Bug 278159] Re: Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives

2008-10-05 Thread RC Howe
I'm having this problem too.

Both of the partitions on my disk show up in the places menu and when I
do mount -a; however, the partition editor in ubiquity, gparted, and
partman all report it as being unpartitioned space.

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