kubuntu 8.04 installer reports wrong hard drive size

Bug #326187 reported by hipsterical
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

the last week a friend of mine and i bought two AMD64 6000+ based computers, 4 gb ram, motherboard asrock n61p-s with onboard nvidia geForce 6. my one has a 250 Gb HDD , my friend's one is 500 in size. we both installed kubuntu 8.04. the installation went flawlessly for me, while he reported wrong screen geometry and unreadable fonts at install time, general difficulty using the gui plus the disk was seen as two partitions of 128 Gb each, and because of the absence of disk labels he also got into a mistake accidentally formatting an external 750-Gb USB drive (since the disk reading was all messed up he assumed it was all wrong, so he forgot that drive was actually connected via hub and powered up). no boot disk errors. no memory corruption. the system then installed and ran win XP alright. as soon as i know the HDD brand and model I'm going to tell. he later was able to retrieve his data with some disaster rescue software
that cat ain't no friggin' rookie, he is an experienced and aged programmer but he still didnt manage to get the system installed and had to revert to vanilla Ubuntu, and the thing that puzzles me is that we ran the same software on practically identical machines with dramatically different results. he did some mistake because of tiredness i assume but this does not explain the corrupted istallation screens.

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George Lesica (oldmanstan) wrote :

This report seems to be dealing with two separate issues, the video and the mis-reported hard drive size and partitioning.

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George Lesica (oldmanstan) wrote :

How were these drives connected? Also, please attach a copy of the output from dmesg and the contents of /proc/partitions

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hipsterical (hipsterical) wrote :

the 'wrong' drive was a sata2 one and there is no way to retrieve the output of dmesg and the contents in /proc/partitions since the owner switched to an install of win XP instead.

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Evan (ev) wrote :

I'm afraid there's just not enough to go on here, and as he installed Windows I'm assuming that he would be unwilling to try and reproduce the bug and attach the required log files.

If you or him run into this again at some point, please feel free to reopen this bug report or file a new one and attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman, which should give us an idea of what is going wrong.

Thanks!

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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