Valid Partition Tables Can't be read by (some) Installers

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:15:51AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on
> my first SATA hard drive.  Yet fdisk can read and write them
> without problem.
> 
> Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the
> installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain
> damage.

If you have more than I think its 15 partitions you will only see the first
15 but you will get those.

But on the positive side handling for very large numbers of partitions on
ATA disks went upstream yesterday 8)