Ubuntu
parted package

  1. Bug #158166
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 158166

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MastaG (mastag) wrote :

The workaround works but if you would like to keep your efi partition its best to use an updated distro.

The libata_piix driver shipped with the official Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 7.xx install disc is having troubles detecting the samsung drive when an GPT/EFI setup is used. Other drives dont seem to have this problem.

Use the updated distros, they have the newer kernel drivers.
(Ubuntu) "Hardy alpha-4" http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-4/
or
(Fedora 8) "Unity Re-Spin F8 20071218" http://spins.fedoraunity.org/unity/fedora-unity-re-spin-f8-20071218

I tested them both, and confirmed working with this drive, using GPT MBR (and EFI partition) and also tried using MS-DOS MBR (but that was allready working as stated above).

I'm now running Leopard OSX 10.5.1 and Fedora 8 Unity Re-Spin 20071218 using a GPT setup (meaning I still have the EFI partition, followed by the HFS partition, ext3 /boot partition and LVM).