Ah, I've tracked this down to efibootmgr not supporting 4K-logical- sector disks. Fortunately, Fedora has a patch for this, which I'll backport.
Perhaps somebody at Dell could nudge Matt Domsch and/or Stuart Hayes about applying this patch, or similar, and issuing a new upstream release? You can find it here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/efibootmgr.git/tree/efibootmgr-0.5.4 -support-4k-sectors.patch ** Also affects: efibootmgr (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu Precise) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu Quantal) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu Precise) Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04.2 ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu Quantal) Milestone: None => quantal-updates -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065281 Title: Installer crashed when trying to partition 4k/4k sector hard disks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-poweredge/+bug/1065281/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
