Originally, I ran the program from within the gui installer on the Live disk metioned above.
However, this is probably not a gparted problem. I re-ran the install using the ubuntu-6.06-beta2-install-i386.iso and used the standard 'debian' installer with manual partitioning. When I tried the same layout I got the same error message, 'No root filesystem', from the good old curses environment as well. Next I made a /boot parition in ext2 with the rest of the file system in reiserfs and everything worked as expected. The drives are both western digital: WDC WD800GD-75FL Here's fdisk output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 6 35 240975 83 Linux /dev/sda3 36 9726 77842957+ 83 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Here's functioning fstab: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1/dev/sdb2 /tmp reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/sdb3 /usr/local reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/sdb1 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ And disk related entries from dmesg output: [4294675.934000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF886AD00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 23 3 [4294675.934000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF886AD80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 23 3 [4294675.934000] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF886AE00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 23 3 [4294675.934000] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF886AE80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 23 3 [4294676.138000] ata1: dev 0 cfg 00:427a 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7f63 84:4003 85:74e9 86:3e43 87:4003 88:207f 93:0000 [4294676.138000] ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 156250000 sectors: LBA48 [4294676.199000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x1f0002, handle=0x00000000 [4294676.200000] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 [4294676.260000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x1f0002, handle=0x00000000 [4294676.260000] scsi0 : ahci [4294676.462000] ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) [4294676.462000] scsi1 : ahci [4294676.666000] ata3: dev 0 cfg 00:427a 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7f63 84:4003 85:74e9 86:3e43 87:4003 88:207f 93:0000 [4294676.666000] ata3: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 156250000 sectors: LBA48 [4294676.726000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x1f0002, handle=0x00000000 [4294676.727000] ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 [4294676.788000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x1f0002, handle=0x00000000 [4294676.788000] scsi2 : ahci [4294676.990000] ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000) [4294676.990000] scsi3 : ahci [4294676.990000] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD800GD-75FL Rev: 32.0 [4294676.990000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision : 05 [4294676.990000] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD800GD-75FL Rev: 32.0 [4294676.990000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision : 05 [4294676.999000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [4294676.999000] SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB) [4294676.999000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back [4294677.000000] SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB) [4294677.000000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back [4294677.000000] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 [4294677.007000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda [4294677.007000] SCSI device sdb: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB) [4294677.007000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back [4294677.007000] SCSI device sdb: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB) [4294677.007000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back [4294677.007000] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 [4294677.019000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb [4294677.174000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs [4294677.175000] usbcore: registered new driver hub [4294677.176000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> I -- no root file system https://launchpad.net/bugs/42003 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
