Feisty Installer doesn't recognize my existing partitions

[Riccardo Pelizzi]

Trying to install feisty on a Dell inpiron 6400 laptop.
Edgy eft installs and runs fine.

When prompted for disk partitioning, the installer only sees my laptop disk with no partitions... so either i wipe out all the data on my disk since i have to rewrite my partition table, or I give up installing Feisty Fawn :-(
I have no problems reading the partitions... i partitioned the disk while installing windows XP sp2 a month ago... then installed edgy eft (which detected the existing partitions just fine) and made a few extra partitions for linux with the EE installer.

[glaroc (glaroc)]

Same problem here. See this post : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=416800 and this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=415274. All problems reported are on the same computer (sadly the same that suffers from the ATI x1400 bug also), and had previous installs of Edgy.

GL

[RichardL (richard-lake)]

Smae problem here; the installer doesn't recognize any partitions.
Kubuntu 7.04 alternate i386
Abit AV8 motherborad
160gb Seagate Barracuda SATA - all space currently in partitions
Last partitioning done was when I installed Ubuntu but I have used partition magic in the past.

[Riccardo Pelizzi (r-pelizzi)]

Workaround: use partition doctor to rewrite your partition table (and keep your data of course!). This is due to an inconsistent partition table.
parted should give you the error: "Error: can't have overlapping partitions"

Still i don't know why EE "tolerated" this inconsistency while FF refused to see my partitions...

[Riccardo Pelizzi (r-pelizzi)]

sorry, the name is "partition table doctor". Then you can install FF and see all your partitions.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Is this still an issue on 8.10 final?

[Christopher Griffiths (chris)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Gutsy reached EOL on April 18th, 2009.
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