I finally got Ubuntu installed! Because Ubiquity will partition 4k HDD drives wrong, you have to do the following:
1. Make the partitions you want with GNU Parted in the commandline, easily done by booting from a live-USB or live-CD and making sure to use "parted -a optimal" 2. Use the 11.04 alternative installer CD and manually set the mount points for all the partitions. A live-CD installer might work, but it didn't for me. Ubiquity will complain that the disk is misaligned if you try to format any partitions besides the swap are, so make sure they've already been formatted in Disk Utility. For some reason Ubiquity wants to put the first partition at the 34th sector of the HDD, while Disk Utility and Parted will both (correctly) put the first partition at the 63rd sector. Hopefully the developers can have this fixed before Oneiric's release! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583790 Title: Ubuntu 10.04 and Western DIgital's new Advanced Format SATA drives - constant drive errors To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/583790/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
