Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Ubiquity, gparted and debian-installer all showed no partitions when trying to
install Ubuntu 8.10. They all pretended that there was no partition table
present. It was a long search before I found out that I had overlapping
partitions in my partition table, and that I could fix them with testdisk. Only
parted warns about it. Fdisk shows no errors and can print a table.
I can see no difference between no table being present or a table with invalid
data, that can be corrected, being present.
Gparted and Ubiquity should detect and warn about partition table errors
(if parted can do it, gparted and the installers can too) and give a
solution too, if they can.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: gparted installer partitions ubiquity
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Ubiquity, gparted and debian-installer all showed no partitions when trying
to install Ubuntu 8.10. They all pretended that there was no partition table
present. It was a long search before I found out that I had overlapping
partitions in my partition table, and that I could fix them with testdisk. Only
parted warns about it. Fdisk shows no errors and can print a table.
- There is no difference between no table being present or a table with invalid
data, that can be corrected, being present.
+ I can see no difference between no table being present or a table with
invalid data, that can be corrected, being present.
Gparted and Ubiquity should detect and warn about partition table errors
(if parted can do it, gparted and the installers can too) and give a
solution too, if they can.
** Tags added: gparted installer partitions ubiquity
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Installers should warn when having a wrong partition table
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303680
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