Comment 6 for bug 107023

Still present in hardy/jaunty -- I recently installed Hardy on my box, which contained an existing Jaunty installation. (Bug #333584 #https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/333584 stopped me installing Intrepid, so I had to install Hardy). After I had done, the partition table could not be read by cfdisk (whether Intrepid or Jaunty's version). GParted (any version) has no problem with it.

My partition table, from fdisk:
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Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x10000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 35243 283089366 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 35244 38913 29479275 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 37781 38913 9100791 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 35244 37669 19486782 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 37670 37780 891576 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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My guess is that the problem is cfdisk. See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464377