Failed formatting disk during installation

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use a target that has never been installed with Froyo-x86
2. make a gingerbread-x86 usb stick
2. boot with installation to hard drive
3. Specify format drive to ext3 (suspecting the same problem with other
   choice of file systems)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The formatting step was skipped really fast. The end result is a bad
file system. The system disk won't boot. I verified by booting with
ubuntu on a USB stick and trying to mount with option '-t ext3' the android-x86 
disk.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

gingerbread-x86 git dated May 30, 2011. Target eeePC.

Please provide any additional information below.

Workaround: Install froyo-86 first then reinstall gingerbread-x86.
Because the disk was formatted by froyo-x86 installation. It works.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kiets...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2011 at 4:57

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I have had this issue too inside vmware, I got round it using an existing copy 
of gparted i had to format the partition for me.

Original comment by jholcr...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2011 at 11:02