Installation of Jaunty wouldn't complete on drive with ext3 file system

[spinetingler]

I was attempting to do a fresh dual-boot install of windows xp and ubuntu 9.04. The original installation was successful. But because of partitioning issues not associated with either os, I just decided to partition the drive differently, I had to do a reinstall. When I tried to reinstall ubuntu to the previous ext3 partition, the installation would fail when trying to install grub.
Config: 500GB HDD w/ 12GB WinXP partition, 150GB Ubuntu partition, 2.5GB Linux swap partition, Balance = shared drive, installation successful.
Reconfig: w/ 12GB WinXP partition, 150 Ubuntu part (retained ext3 filesystem), 2.5GB swap, 4 x 75+GB part, installation failed.
Reconfig: w/ 12GB WinXP part, 2.5GB swap, 150 Ubuntu part (no filesystem), 4 x 75+GB part, installation successful.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Sergio Barjola (sbarjola)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Associated this bug to ubiquity package.

[Sergio Barjola (sbarjola)]

Can you attach /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman log files ? Thanks in advance!

[Sergio Barjola (sbarjola)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[spinetingler (leondavis-jr)]

I am unable to attach the log files as requested at this time as my system is in storage awaiting completion of office move. I will make them available asap. Thanks for your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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