serious bug in installer (hardy) alpha 6

Bug #200213 reported by Holge r
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #186895: partition not working in grub. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Can somebody confirm this as this was not funny for me at all ;-)

I burned the latest alpha6 alternate 386 iso of hardy to test it. I tried to install as I did it before hundreds of times with other ubuntu alpha and beta releases for testing. It seem the installer can not clearly recognise the hard drives, it is a little hard to describe but here the facts:

I have 2 SATA hard drives as raid1 (connected with a pci raid controller, however the motherboard has also a raid controller for sata but is not in use) and additional 3 IDE hard drives connected on the testing work station. So this means (hda,hdb,hdb,sda,sdb). The installer from gutsy 7.10 shows correctly this collection of drives. The latest hardy alpha 6 installer shows me (sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde )???????. Anyway I choose my drive for installation by the name of hard drive, in my case it was the "Samsung bla bla ..." hda drive (primary IDE as master). However after finished installation grub was not working and told me something with file not found. So I checked a little bit and realised that hardy was installed to the sata drives?!? I was also confused as I chosse during installation "lvm crypted" and it starts to erasing an empty hard drive (no partition). Normally this was not the case with gutsy 7.10.

Can somebody confirm this problem or rebuild this case as this is terrible if you have no backup somewhere for the overwritten partitions ;-) Was there any change for this between 7.10 and 8.04?

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