installer/parted confued by broken partition table

[Carl Karsten]

got a used box, it boots XP and seems to run OK.
ran alt installer, partitioner doesn't show partitions, only the raw drive (/dev/sda)

(06:02:49 PM) cjwatson: falls under "weird corner case" but I guess we have to deal with it :-/
(06:04:48 PM) cjwatson: I care about any case where we can't read the disk at all, but I can't promise dealing with it quickly - I suspect a real fix would have to involve teaching Linux to understand the broken partition table

BusyBox v1.10.2 (2008-09-12 08:44:00 UTC) built-in shell (ash)

~ # uname -a
Linux dhcp243 2.6.27-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Sep 22 04:40:44 UTC 2008 i686 unknown

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

attached od.txt, syslog and parman are same as in instal_logs.tgz - just pulled out for easy viewing

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

I was wrong about my statements in IRC: "no way to create partitions" and "allows me to install to the raw sda"

if I select sda, it warns me that I am going to loose all data.

Sill bad that it isn't seeing the existing partition table.

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi Carl,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 273379

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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