installer/parted confued by broken partition table (#2)

[Carl Karsten]

Binary package hint: parted

working win2000 system on an 80g drive, partition table is what clonezilla created based on a smaller 60g drive, but win2k boots ok, so it isn't completely whacked.

This is possibly the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/273379
(01:56:36 PM) cjwatson: it looks different, at first glance

.tar is everything, see README for how things were gathered.

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

fdisk/sfdisk:

Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x39c839c7
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 1 7297 58613121 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 9964 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
   Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 0+ 7296 7297- 58613121 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi Carl,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 277234

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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