Bug 85631
| Summary: | Cannot install Phoebe with Smart Boot Manager | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Kazutoshi Morioka <morioka> |
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-06-25 18:56:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.8 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030212 Description of problem: I'm using Smart Boot Manager (SBM) as a bootmanager. Phoebe installer failed to detect patition table on my machine using SBM. My machine's partition type was not detected correctly as msdos, but as "loop" patition type (like a filesystem on floppy). This is SBM's fault. not a bug of Phoebe installer nor GNU parted. SBM incorrectly put a fat filesystem signature, "FAT12" in offset 0x36 bytes from beginning of disk. So, GNU parted will think this is a raw FAT filesystem. I tried to clear from offset 0x36 to 0x3a with SPACE code, 0x20. Then, I can successfully install Phoebe. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install SBM into Master Boot Record. 2. Try to install Phoebe. 3. Proceed to disk-druid. Actual Results: Incorrect partition type "loop" is detected, and failed to install. Expected Results: Correctly detect "msdos" partition table, and diskdruid is showing up. Additional info: What to be fixed is SBM. Editing partition table with hexedit is easy for me, But there is no other out-of-the-box solution for this problem. Uninstalling SBM leave a FAT signature on the MBR. So that, uninstalling SBM dose not solve this. At least, please mention this in the RELEASE-NOTES.