bus error partitioning ubuntu 9.10

[allaserik]

Hi.

Trying to run on Satellite M45 - S269

Had Windows XP on it. Made backups and was hoping ubuntu would format and partition it.



I get following error (see below) when trying to make partitions. Hope you guys can help.

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GParted 0.4.5

Libparted 1.8.8.1.159-1e0e
Create Primary Partition #1 (ext4, 10.09 GiB) on /dev/sda 00:00:08 ( ERROR )

create empty partition 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sda1
start: 63
end: 21157604
size: 21157542 (10.09 GiB)
set partition type on /dev/sda1 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )

new partition type: ext4
create new ext4 file system 00:00:06 ( ERROR )

mkfs.ext4 -j -O extent -L "ubuntu" /dev/sda1

Filesystem label=ubuntu
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
662256 inodes, 2644692 blocks
132234 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=2709520384
81 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8176 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Writing inode tables: done
mke2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Bus error (core dumped)

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Create Primary Partition #2 (ext4, 285.16 GiB) on /dev/sda

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