A further report on what is probably the same bug. Target: HP NC6120 (centrino) laptop with Windows XP Professional, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD.
The first partitioner screen gave a number of options, of which the first two were quite odd: 0 Guided - resize cdrom-retriever and use freed space Selecting any of the Guided options brings up the Partition disks screen, which shows the actual disk partition scheme (not a proposed scheme as for the 6.06 LTS alternate CD). The first option on this screen is the same as the option that was selected from the list on the previous screen. There is also an odd option at the end of the screen just above "Undo changes to partitions": SCSI (,,) () Selecting anything on this screen brings up a warning: "No partition table changes and no creation of file systems have been planned". If one goes back to the partitioning screen, the Windows partition description is overwritten by the message "10 partman/filesystem_short/ntfs doesn't exist #%s 21." Could it be that the partitioner wierdness has something to do with the libata changes I've heard about (i.e. that even PATA drives now look like SCSI drives to the kernel)? Some more info: Laptop has wireless and wired LAN - problem experienced with wired LAN both connected & disconnected. Attempted to do text installation from Alternate i386 CD (similar problems experienced with command-line installation). At the first attempt the system had a factory default XP Pro installation, with the entire disk occupied by an 80GB NTFS partition. The intention was to resize the partition and install Ubuntu on the freed-up space. Since that failed, Acronis True Image v8 was used to replace the NTFS partition with one 20GB in size. Then Windows was used to create two further primary partitions - 24GB unformatted and 32GB FAT32. The unformatted partition was deleted - the space being intended for the Ubuntu installation. Test was repeated one more time, asking the Ubuntu partitioner to just erase and use the entire hard disk. As in the previous cases, a partitioner screen came up showing the partitions, but selecting any entry in it resulted in the "No partition table changes" message being displayed. -- Hurd 1 Alternative installation: partition manager fails under specific circumstances https://launchpad.net/bugs/75011 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
