Comment 30 for bug 99908

Install of Hardy/8.04 failed for me several times.
The failure was always upon trying to make ext3 filesystem.
Before details, let me summarize some points of my case.

+ The problem happened for Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Xubuntu-alternate.
+ LiveCD and alternate-install refers to IDE-disk as /dev/sda and SCSI2,
  while on previous releases it was always /dev/hda.
+ Kernel/initrd 2.6.24-16 fails to recognize root partition.
  Kernel/initrd 2.6.22-14 recognizes the root partition and load well.

I started from a running Gutsy-7.10 having:

    root@durini:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
    DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
    DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
    DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
    DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"
    root@durini:~# fdisk -l

    Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x00007edb

       Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux
    /dev/hda2 * 6 2324 18627367+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hda3 2325 4757 19543072+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hda4 4758 14593 79007670 5 Extended
    /dev/hda5 4758 4999 1943833+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/hda6 5000 14593 77063773+ 83 Linux
    root@durini:~# mount | grep hda
    /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
    /dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw)
    /dev/hda1 on /media/hda1 type ext3 (rw)
    /dev/hda3 on /media/hda3 type ext3 (rw)
    root@durini:~#

When trying to install via CD, both Ubuntu-8.04 XUbuntu-8.04 failed
with a message:

 ..............................................
  Failed to creae a file system

  The ext3 file system creation in partition #2
  of SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sda) failed
 ..............................................

Attached is a tar.gz file having inside the following:
 parti-dlg.jpeg - partition dialog
 parti-dlg2.jpeg - ready-to-install dialog
 fail.jpeg - partition fail - dialog
 fdisk-l.out - 'fdisk -l' output. Notice: /dev/sda (should be /dev/hda !?)
 messages - /var/log/message of liveCD whole session .

Similar failures happened using the Xubuntu-Alternate-8.04 CD.

After several failures, I re-installed 7.10, and upgraded to 8.04 using
the 'update-manager' tool.
But then the system failed to but with the default 2.6.24-16 kernel.
I got message of
  ldm_validate_partition_table()
  Disk read failed
  ...
  /dev/disk/by/uuid ... does not exist
  ... Dropped to a shell.
  ... Busybox.

Changing grub to use the 2.6.22-14 kernel fixed this problem.
With this kernel, my disk is recognized as /dev/hda and works well.
So may be the above partition problems are related to the 2.6.24-16 kernel.

-- yotam