Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 106643
Installer crash when creating >5 partitions within an extended partition.
Last modified: 2016-04-18 05:43:58 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020424 Description of problem: Anaconda crash when creating >5 partitions within an extended partition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): parted-1.6.3-29 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1) Begin an install of RH EL 3 beta 1 2) Created enough partitions to exceed the 5 partition within the extended partition. I created partitions /a through /i (/a through /c on the primary; /d through /i on the extended). 3) When creating the last partition (by double clicking on the partition itself), I selected the rest of the disk. Doing this caused anaconda to crash and generate a report. The install could not continue. Actual Results: Installer crash Expected Results: Install Additional info: Work-around: Select "new" and create the last partition that way (instead of double clicking on the partition). Duplicate of Bug 101432 (restricted access)
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@redhat.com 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@redhat.com 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.