Hi, Ubuntu Feisty the same problem as described. My partition table is: Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 2551 4940 19197675 83 Linux /dev/hda3 4941 9728 38459610 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda4 5047 9728 37608133+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda5 4941 5046 851382 82 Linux swap / Solaris Installator doesn't see my partition layout. Here is what dmesg shows: [ 102.070108] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 102.070221] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions [ 108.002062] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4 [ 108.029135] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] [ 108.092549] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5 [ 108.119743] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] [ 108.162020] No dock devices found. [ 108.184348] Using specific hotkey driver [ 108.238786] ibm_acpi: ec object not found [ 108.425088] pcc_acpi: loading... [ 112.807861] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [ 123.168331] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). [ 123.238220] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 133.957343] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) [ 133.957350] apm: overridden by ACPI. [ 134.582121] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [ 137.304656] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 [ 137.304732] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 137.304734] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 137.304738] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 137.533342] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 [ 137.533347] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 137.738930] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 137.738946] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 137.738949] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8 [ 250.866026] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 250.866372] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal [ 250.866445] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 470.900610] NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O MODULE]. [ 471.081416] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536 [ 471.315287] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled [ 471.315784] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem [ 531.108908] hda: hda1 hda3 < hda5 > hda4 [ 533.119987] hda: hda1 hda3 < hda5 > hda4 [ 722.203990] QNX4 filesystem 0.2.3 registered. [ 722.280212] cramfs: wrong magic [ 722.505816] cramfs: wrong magic [ 722.510466] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors [ 722.510474] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda3. [ 722.515966] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.515974] hda3: rw=0, want=4, limit=2 [ 722.516325] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock [ 722.521507] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.521514] hda3: rw=0, want=66, limit=2 [ 722.521853] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hda3, iso_blknum=16, block=32 [ 722.526507] SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hda3 [ 722.543057] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.543066] hda3: rw=0, want=4, limit=2 [ 722.543507] EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock [ 722.548793] NTFS-fs error (device hda3): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid. [ 722.548802] NTFS-fs error (device hda3): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. [ 722.548806] NTFS-fs error (device hda3): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. [ 722.554560] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.554570] hda3: rw=0, want=72, limit=2 [ 722.554929] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.554933] hda3: rw=0, want=128, limit=2 [ 722.559592] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.559599] hda3: rw=0, want=18, limit=2 [ 722.560638] ReiserFS: hda3: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev hda3, block 8, size 1024) [ 722.560868] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.560872] hda3: rw=0, want=130, limit=2 [ 722.561134] ReiserFS: hda3: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev hda3, block 64, size 1024) [ 722.561139] ReiserFS: hda3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda3 [ 722.565901] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.565908] hda3: rw=0, want=8, limit=2 [ 722.571457] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors [ 722.571465] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda3. [ 722.577030] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.577037] hda3: rw=0, want=4, limit=2 [ 722.577395] MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock [ 722.599683] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.599690] hda3: rw=0, want=3, limit=2 [ 722.600699] hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock [ 722.605577] qnx4: wrong fsid in superblock. [ 722.610759] You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem [ 722.610762] [ 722.610763] mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|ufs2|5xbsd|old|hp|nextstep|nextstep-cd|openstep ... [ 722.610765] [ 722.610766] >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old [ 722.611718] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.611722] hda3: rw=0, want=18, limit=2 [ 722.617032] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 722.617041] hda3: rw=0, want=3, limit=2 [ 722.617389] hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev hda3. [ 722.663362] cramfs: wrong magic [ 722.668723] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors [ 722.668730] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda4. [ 722.674402] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda4. [ 722.689262] Unable to identify CD-ROM format. [ 722.694335] SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hda4 [ 722.705094] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda4. [ 722.745022] NTFS volume version 3.1. [ 722.931538] cramfs: wrong magic [ 722.937218] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors [ 722.937225] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda5. [ 722.942142] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda5. [ 722.957191] Unable to identify CD-ROM format. [ 722.964001] SQUASHFS error: Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on hda5 [ 722.972940] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda5. [ 722.977848] NTFS-fs error (device hda5): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid. [ 722.977857] NTFS-fs error (device hda5): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. [ 722.977861] NTFS-fs error (device hda5): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. [ 722.987811] ReiserFS: hda5: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda5 [ 722.997649] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors [ 722.997656] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda5. [ 723.002569] VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device hda5 [ 723.007574] hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock [ 723.012126] qnx4: wrong fsid in superblock. [ 723.016635] You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem [ 723.016638] [ 723.016639] mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|ufs2|5xbsd|old|hp|nextstep|nextstep-cd|openstep ... [ 723.016641] [ 723.016642] >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old [ 723.017905] ufs_read_super: bad magic number [ 723.022595] hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev hda5. [ 1870.470898] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 > hda4 [ 1872.501988] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 > hda4