Bug 27951

Summary:	Diskdruid unable to create partitions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Patrick <ptoutain>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Patrick 2001-02-16 07:43:45 UTC

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Bad : When installing Fisher, when using DiskDruid, you always got errors 
when trying to create partitions.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot from floppy using boot.img image
2.Perform installation using parameters linux ide1=0x186,0x380 lba32
3.choose custom install and use diskdruid
	

Actual Results:  Errors when trying to create partitionds

Expected Results:  ability to create linux native partition and swap.
note that this problem does not occur with previous version (7.0)

SONY VAIO Z600-TEK with BIOS set up : Plug & Play OS : no

Aside, from this, it is working fine now

Comment 1 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2001-02-16 08:15:12 UTC

I had a similar problem with RH7.0. Diskdruid complained that there was no 
primary partition available. I solved it by deleting/rearanging old partitions.
I guess the requirement was that both /boot and / had to be on primary 
partitions which you can have only 4 on each hard drive. What is exactly the 
error messages you get from diskdruid?

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-16 15:01:17 UTC

What are these special parameters for?

Comment 3 Glen Foster 2001-02-17 23:31:26 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2001-03-14 17:57:22 UTC

Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have additional information to add.