dhysk
October 13th, 2010, 04:19 PM
This PC started on Ubuntu 9.04 and had been upgraded to 10.04. The problem was the last update I did yesterday bricked Linux... Instead of fixing it I figured I'd do a reinstall; it's a good way to clear disk space of useless crap anyway.
So to the problem.... I boot the live Ubuntu 10.10 CD and try to use the installer. Unfortunately the installer doesn't see my partitions. I need to install 10.10 over the old linux partition and I don't want to reinstall windows and I have a small partition I use as a temp backup.
I saw someone with a similar problem and he fixed it by manipulating his partition table. Unfortunately I don't see a problem with mine to fix. Maybe I'm blined but any help would be nice. Even a manual install method at this point would be nice.
Anyway here is a fdisk -lu
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00039aec
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 829644794 414822366 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 829644795 932043104 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 932043105 976768064 22362480 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 961634898 976768064 7566583+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 932043231 961634834 14795802 83 Linux
Link to simular problem fix: http://www.rodsbooks.com/missing-parts/
So to the problem.... I boot the live Ubuntu 10.10 CD and try to use the installer. Unfortunately the installer doesn't see my partitions. I need to install 10.10 over the old linux partition and I don't want to reinstall windows and I have a small partition I use as a temp backup.
I saw someone with a similar problem and he fixed it by manipulating his partition table. Unfortunately I don't see a problem with mine to fix. Maybe I'm blined but any help would be nice. Even a manual install method at this point would be nice.
Anyway here is a fdisk -lu
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00039aec
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 829644794 414822366 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 829644795 932043104 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 932043105 976768064 22362480 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 961634898 976768064 7566583+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 932043231 961634834 14795802 83 Linux
Link to simular problem fix: http://www.rodsbooks.com/missing-parts/