Installer crashing at disk-partition stage

[Randy Forston]

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Edward Speyer
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:12 AM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Installer crashing at disk-partition stage


I'm finding the Breezy installer is crashing at the disk-partitioning
stage.

This is what the syslog looks like just before the installer restarts:

  http://www.tropic.org.uk/~edward/installer-failure

At first, I thought I might have a corrupted install CD.  The md5sum is
indeed wrong when I checked it on this laptop.

So I burned a new, net-install only CD.  I think a net-install downloads
the udebs for disk partitioning from the ubuntu mirror.  (Thereby
avoiding having to get this software from a corrupt CD.)  However, the
installer still crashes at the disk-partitioning stage.

For what it's worth, as the bootloader help screens suggest, I've tried
booting with the "nolapic" and "noapic" kernel options, though I don't
really know what they do.

Any tips?  I guess finding out what's actually broken would be a good
start :)

Ed

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Ed,

Try wiping the first 60 sectors of this drive, first, with a drive utility.
(The manufacturer of your drive may have a free one on their website.)

Then try a fresh install.

Quite often, there's some odd data "stuck" in the boot block of the drive,
from a previous install, that causes a partitioner to fail in this sort of
manner.


Cheers,
Randy