Partman rewrites partition table unnecessarily

[codewarrior]

Binary package hint: partman-base

While installing Ubuntu 8.10 from the Alternate CD, I found some annoying and unwanted behavior in the text-mode partman.

I choose Manual partitioning instead of any Guided option. After setting mount points, the partitioner insists on rewriting the partition table, even though I haven't changed any of the partition locations, sizes, types, or any other information stored in the table. Subsequently, it complains that the kernel hasn't reread the partition table.

I'm not sure why it feels the need to rewrite my partition table.

[codewarrior (codewarrior)]

Additional notes: I am using MSDOS partition tables. After some prior experiments, some of my extended partitions begin at less than 63 sectors after the beginning of the EBR.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please attach /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman from after installation. (I especially need the latter.)

[xteejx (xteejx)]

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