Comment 8 for bug 987418

@ Steve Langasek and Stéphane Graber,

ATM I'm much more concerned about 12.04.1. In order to verify that this is still a problem I created a Precise i386 20120810.1 disc and tried some installation cases on two totally different sets of hardware. This does still exist in the current Precise daily images!

Just as one example my start point was:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD1600BEVS-2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 32.3kB 41.9GB 41.9GB primary ntfs boot

Model: ATA Maxtor 33073U4 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 30.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 1049kB 29.7GB 29.7GB primary ext4
 2 29.7GB 30.7GB 1003MB extended
 5 29.7GB 30.7GB 1003MB logical linux-swap(v1)

Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

But the manual partitioner defaults to /dev/sdb as shown in the attached screenshot.

I'd think we really do need to fix this in 12.04.1.