Installing Ubuntu (9.10) yesterday on a machine, I had a blank partitioner screen - having installed this on a dozen or so machines, I figured something was wrong in the bios, with the drive, or some other hardware issue. I found that I was able to boot the live CD and use GParted or Disk Utility and see the drive fine. Eventually I found THIS post that describes a terminal command "sudo apt-get remove dmraid". Even though my MOBO has no RAID, this fixed it! Because I was booting from the live CD, the command returns an error (CD is read only), but that is ok - it still removes it from memory. Then I run the install from the desktop of the live CD and it worked fine - the drive showed up in the partitioner.
Hopefully this will help save someone else some time!
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