OK, managed to fix it following this advice: http://leisurehours.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/partition-table-entries- are-not-in-disk-order-problem/
That required some repair on the GRUB command line, set root and all that, then got my system to boot into Ubuntu and had to do both update- grub and grub install /dev/sda. I now have this: Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 2457600, Id= 7, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 2459648, size=226342912, Id= 7 /dev/sda3 : start=228802560, size=238088192, Id= 5 /dev/sda4 : start=466890752, size= 21504368, Id= 7 /dev/sda5 : start=228804608, size=233887744, Id=83 /dev/sda6 : start=462696448, size= 4192256, Id=82 gparted now shows this as /dev/sda1 ntfs SYSTEM_DRV /dev/sda2 ntfs Windows7_OS /dev/sda3 extended /dev/sda5 ext4 / /dev/sda6 linux-swap /dev/sda4 ntfs Lenovo_Recovery So it seems like the issue was that sda3 started after sda4 and when these were put back in disk order, it works OK. It appears that gparted will leave the partition table in this state under some circumstances if you add/remove partitions (at one point this drive had four partitions under sda4 until I removed some unused partitions). Hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571038 Title: palimpsest crash with libgdu:ERROR:gdu-pool.c:2369:device_recurse: assertion failed: (depth < 100) Status in gnome-disk-utility: New Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-1 palimpsest ** libgdu:ERROR:gdu-pool.c:2369:device_recurse: assertion failed: (depth < 100) Aborted ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: b6d3f9688481829aa18d194ae2c428e7 CheckboxSystem: 1cdd12c3facc79381f02e281767fe3cc Date: Wed Apr 28 03:03:14 2010 ProcEnviron: LANG=pl_PL.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/571038/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
