When I overwrite the first sectors of my SATA harddrive with zeros using the following command, the installer doesn't crash at that stage any more:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=4 -- Installer crashed during partition analasis https://launchpad.net/bugs/78881 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
