Comment 7 for bug 107787

I have encountered this problem while partitioning a 500Gb hard drive. I was following the instructions for setting-up MythTV at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Feisty_Backend_Frontend_Desktop

The third primary partition would have been a 360Gb XFS partition, but I received the error "can't have the end before the start". Attempting to place this 360Gb partition at the end of the drive did not work. Creating two XFS partitions at 200GB + remaining space (about 160Gb) worked.

Feisty Fawn 7.04 AMD/Intel 64bit Desktop version
500Gb Western Digital SATA
Asus P5WD2-E Premium MB
LiteOn E-IDE CD-ROM SHM-165H6S