Comment 41 for bug 222126

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Perfect, that's just what I thought.

There are two causes for this bug. The first was that, in Hardy, I fixed bug 107326, which meant that GPT support was broken for everyone *not* on an Apple system. (That's the reason why simply reverting to an older version is not the answer here; I don't like toggling between bugs!) The second is that Apple changed their company name in early 2007 from "Apple Computer, Inc." to "Apple Inc.", and so all machines manufactured since then identify themselves with the new name rather than the old name. Most of the installer was updated some time back (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483182) but we forgot about parted.

I'll get this fixed in Jaunty very shortly, and we should issue an update for at least Ubuntu 8.04.3 as well. (Intrepid is trickier since we have no plans to produce updated CD images, but I suppose parted is used on the installed system too.)