Ubuntu
partman-basicfilesystems package

  1. Bug #1361951
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 1361951

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: Utopic installation freezes during partition creation

I noticed this in the syslog:

Nov 1 15:48:08 ubuntu partman: mke2fs 1.42.10 (18-May-2014)
Nov 1 15:48:08 ubuntu partman: Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda10

It seems you have something that looks like a dos partition table in /dev/sda10. I'm guessing that mke2fs is printing that warning and then asking if you want to continue, and it never gets any input since it isn't actually connected to a tty. partman-ext3 probably needs to add a -F.

As a workaround, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda10 count=1 should clear it out.