No partitioning options are listed in text-mode installer

[Andrew]

The "Partition disks" step of the text-mode installer lists only the following items:
    Help on partitioning

    Undo changes to partitions
    Finish partitioning and write changes to disk

There is no way to move on with the installation.

My partitions exist as follows:
    /dev/sda1
        intrepid hd-media installer (boot.img.gz, initrd.gz, vmlinuz)
        ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso
    /dev/sda5
        root filesystem to be installed over (currently a working Hardy installation)
    /dev/sda6
        swap

This problem does not happen with the analogous setup using hardy hd-media and the 8.04 ISO.

[Andrew (andrewkvalheim)]

Is there any way to manually perform this step from the shell so that it's possible to move on with the installation?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This means that parted is having trouble understanding your disk's partition table. I'm very interested in fixing this, but I need some data from you to do so. Could you please attach the following files to this bug (you can use "Save debug logs" from the installer's main menu to help you extract them):

  /var/log/syslog, from the running installer after reproducing this bug
  /var/log/partman, likewise
  the output of 'sudo od -Ax -tx1 -N512 /dev/sda', which you will have to run from a desktop CD or from the existing hardy installation on your disk

Thanks in advance!

[Andrew (andrewkvalheim)]

It's too late for me to test this, but I suspect this was the same issue described in #288675.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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