OK. I had to get this working, it is my wife's new laptop. Precise failed the same (12.04.1); alternate Quantal image also failed.
Eventually I found that -- somehow -- the partitioning provided by Dell was causing this. After I formatted the HD (remember, only the installers were unable to find the drive), deleting all partitions, I was able to install Quantal. The original partitions (unfortunately, the logs were lost) were like this: sda1 -- Dell Tests sda2 -- Dell Recovery sda3 -- Windows. Now, a new test or more data will need to wait for somebody else to get a system like this one from Dell. I think we do not need milestoning it against release anymore, but this should still be kept in the back burner until we find what is it Dell did to the partition table. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1062625 Title: Ubuquity partitioning fails to find /dev/sda To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1062625/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
