I am having this same basic problem and Ubuntu beta will not install. I have tried using the installer as well as command line (fdisk etc) from the Live CD. Both improperly partition my 60G Toshiba drive on a SiS motherboarded Laptop. The drive is brand new, never partitioned or formatted before. I first allowed the installer to try to partition and format and it fails with "No / file system" after a lengthy formatting time. I tried this over a dozen times, same result....taking 3 days to do this. I then tried Manual Partitioning and selected just a swap of 2 Gig and the rest at root (/) with ext3 file system. Again, lengthy formatting times and repeated tries and still no root file system. I then ran the Live CD and checked for partitions. There were none. No tag either. I used cfdisk to partition the drive and when I tried to format it, I received errors of "partition extends beyond physical device limits". From looking at the partition data, the partitions are all coming up as being one cylinder past the end of the drive.
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