Having found that the Winblows installation was too far gone to be rescued, I decided to try a fresh install without shrinking the existing partition. Using a Lucid LiveCD dated 31 march 2010, and choosing the 'update this program' option to refresh Ubiquity I went in and chose a manual partitioning as follows: - primary 20GB, fat32, no mount point (later to be formatted to ntfs and used for Win) - logical 5GB, ext4, mount point / - logical 5GB, ext4, mount point /home - logical 2GB, swap - primary 48GB, fat32, no mount point (later to be formatted to ntfs and used for data) Everything went OK, and just before starting the install I could even click Advanced and specify where to load Grub. Then the creation of the first file system failed and Ubiquity bombed out with an error 151.
It seems there is more to this than just Gparted not reading from devicemapper. There have been drivers for linux available from Promise for a while, so I expect these to work although I don't know if they are open source or blobs. Anyway I can access the disk from the LiveCD / Nautilus. Attaching a copy of /var/log/syslog, copied after the installation crashed. Note that the clock was reset halfway the install, I'm not sure why. cheers Tom ** Attachment added: "syslog" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44039102/syslog -- Gparted does not see striped disks on Fasttrack100 controller https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
