installer doesn't let me partition any harddrive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
installer doesn't list any harddrive to partition,
but using a terminal and using gparted , parted or cfdisk shows /dev/sda 40GB disk which I can partition. Why won't the installer list this drive and use it? Ive tried both using IDE legacy and IDE native mode in bios configuration.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 4 20:58:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.8
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(nautilus:3090): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(polkit-
(gnome-
tags: | added: ubiquity-2.0.6 |
tags: | added: karmic |
I inadvertently duplicated this bug under https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ ubiquity/ +bug/477073.
I've marked it so.
Interestingly I'm running on an amd64 system.
One thing I did spot from the syslog (attached to 477073) was that ubiquity had picked up that I had a RAID controller and had switched on dmraid. This system is so old that I'd forgotten about the raid controller (I had switched that off ages ago and use the 2 SATA disks as separate drives not a raid set).
So I restarted the install using the nodmraid option (in fact I switched just about everything off!!) but the problem persisted.
I've attached the 2nd syslog as it seems to show that ubiquity is re-instating the raid functions.