Confirmed here. Though my configuration is a bit different it gives the same behaviour as here above described. I run Natty alpha3 amd64 with kernel 2.6.38-7-generic.
sudo fdisk -l responds with the following: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x57853315 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 13 102400 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 13 2563 20480000 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2563 54428 416603136 83 Linux /dev/sda4 * 54428 60802 51198976 7 HPFS/NTFS With /dev/sda1 mounted as /boot formatted as reiserfs, /dev/sda2 is also formatted as reiserfs and mounted as / /dev/sda3 is an ext4 partition mounted as /home and /dev/sda4 is my Windows partition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736743 Title: boot error: sparse file not allowed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
