Bug 106643
Summary: | Installer crash when creating >5 partitions within an extended partition. | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Larry Troan <ltroan> |
Component: | parted | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 3.0 | CC: | ichute, tao |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | IHV would like this fixed in U1 | ||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2003-10-09 01:23:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Larry Troan
2003-10-09 01:16:23 UTC
THIS BUG CREATED TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE WITH PUBLIC (original bug was IHV specific) This is the error message when the problem occurs: "Could not allocate requested partitions. Partitioning failed: Could not allocate cylinder based partitions." ------- Additional Comments From msf 2003-08-05 11:34 ------- If you increase the starting cylinder of the last partition you create by one, or if that doesnt work, reduce the last cylinder number by one, or change both limits if necessary. There is a problem with parted (the partitioning library) that will occasionally come up where it reports regions of the disk are available which are not. Reducing the last cylinder number by one corrects the problem...will this be fixed? ------- Additional Comments From msf 2003-08-15 11:29 ------- This is a parted issue (previously reported against parted). This is not fixed in RHEL3 "gold". You need to use the work-around described above. Will attempt for fix in errata. |