Bug 103707
Summary: | Installer freezes while manually configuring partitions | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Stan Bubrouski <stan> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 9 | ||
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-10-14 19:38:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Stan Bubrouski
2003-09-04 02:45:36 UTC
First thing to try is to boot up the installer and when you get to the first graphical screen, hit CNTL-ALT_F2. Then type 'parted /dev/hdc' and then hit 'p<ENTER>' and it will print out a listing of all the partitions on the drive. What does it list /dev/hdc3 as? I tried parted, if gave me a warning that another program may have generated an incorrect partition table and asked me to ignore or exit. It said it was fixable. It showed the partition incorrectly as linux-swap. I don't understand why its doing this. partition magic shows it as ext2 with the correct hex, so I'd think parted should do the same? I don't see why this whole disc even matters in the first place. When I choose manual partitioning it shouldn't be selecting ANY partitions for me...right? Can I correct this problem safely in parted? nm my previous comment, I can't even check the partion in parted it segfaults when I try. Funny how partition magic will even let me explore the partition and parted segfaults before it can even touch it...thoughts? Maybe I'll try SuSE. At least their installer isn't broken crap. Sorry that was curt. Anyways I'm gonna try Severn, so I can see if it is fixed there. Did you try Severn? I have seen the problem you have reported a few times in the last 2 releases, but we've never been able to reproduce the issue here. I believe it is related to how the partition table was originally partitioned. What tool(s) were used to create the partition tables originally? Thanks for the information you have supplied, I would like to try and resolve this issue. Same problem on Severn. And I can't get anything else to verify there is something wrong with my partition table like parted thinks there is. And a little digging shows the partition is correctly labeled as ext2 so I dunno why parted thinks its swap, why the installer won't leave it alone, etc... what's the next debugging step here? I missed the last part of your comments. I'm not sure I remember what tool I made the partitions with anymore. It was prolly partition magic back 3 years ago...and I never once had an issue installing RH7.2 or using 7.2 on that partition, so I dunno what gives. The ext2 partition itself was generated during RH7.2 install. -sb This sounds like an issue with libparted (part of the parted package) incorrectly detecting the partition type. Do you care what is on that partition or can you reformat it? I DO NOT want to reformat that partition. I want to leave it as is, at least until I have another partition to move the data to. Hence the empty 40 gb drive I'm trying to put RH9 on. Unplugging the drive is a last resort, because I don't want to deal with my Dell bios afterwards. -sb I do not know of any workaround. It seems whatever tool(s) were used in creating the filesystems on your disk left a signature that is confusing the libparted library. We have not seen this problem in our testing and it is not clear it is something that is reproducible that we would then be able to investigate. |