Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: “prepare partition” page is blank

I used to have CentOS 5.3 installed on the disk, and wanted to replace with Ubuntu, but I kept getting stuck at the “prepare partition” page.

It seems the drive is set up for RAID, even though I’m only using one disk. This seems to prevent the Ubuntu installer’s partitioning function from proceeding (or showing anything useful).

I followed the advice from here to open a shell from the live CD and type:

sudo dmraid -r -E /dev/sda

…and as I’m not using RAID (though JBOD’s the plan), I was happy to answer yes to removing the RAID flags. Installation moved on smoothly from then on.

Kudos to darkod.

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4 Responses to “Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: “prepare partition” page is blank”

  1. Nick C says:
    17-Aug-2010 at 1:13 pm

    This worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

  2. Ryan K says:
    1-Sep-2010 at 5:34 pm

    Worked great!!
    of course I tore apart 2 other systems and tried installing it on the hard drive in them thinking it was a hardware issue first lol

  3. Chris says:
    3-Sep-2010 at 11:40 am

    Glad it helped. I thought I’d try and save some people the hours of frustration I had. Sorry I didn’t save all those hours, but sounds like you got there in the end.

  4. Travis says:
    8-Jan-2011 at 9:21 am

    thanks for saving me a ton of time! worked great!

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