When I try to install the partitioner can not find my HDD

[Richard Reid]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Trying to install Karmic from the LiveCD. When the partitioner is run it can not see any hdd. If I run the partition-manager it sees the hdd fine. If I install Jaunty from its LiveCD it works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 3 17:53:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Richard Reid (richardr98)]

and here's syslog

[Richard Reid (richardr98)]

Bug #474717 sounds like the same thing.

[Tommy_CZ (t-kijas)]

Hi, same bug in Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit installer

[Tommy_CZ (t-kijas)]

Great, so many answers, good to know that somebody helps users.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 473642

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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