Comment 26 for bug 1080701

More than a month later, this bug still persists. I am writing this update on Raring (daily release of 31st October 2012) from the live USB I made. I have a nice 8-partition GUID drive setup; I would do the delete-all-partitions workaround but this deleting Mac OS X from my MacBook Pro would be a bad idea! (it is the only thing that let me make this live USB after all).

The problem is with the Ubiquity partitioner. Installing the Quantal Ubiquity doesn't work. Also, downloading the raring alternate install CD also doesn't work. It goes along in text mode then hangs when starting the partitioner, giving the same 'no volume groups found' error (this error occurs on both the alternate ubuntu raring debian-installer system as well as the ubiquity system (in the logs).

I don't know enough about the ubiquity code to know where the 'partman' is or how it links in. It certainly isn't a partman package nor gparted.

Would be grateful to get this sorted but for now going back to Mint 14 as I can install it (I know raring is testing but it would be cool if someone could revert the partman 'upgrade' that has stopped us being able to install it) :(

System Specs are MacBook Pro 9,1 with 8GB ram and a standard HDD. I can't remove Mac OS X as an experiment as I then couldn't reinstall it.