Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 212066
Anaconda tries to format my iPod
Last modified: 2009-03-24 09:18:41 EDT
I'm trying to do an installation of FC6 using a CD for the boot.iso, and having the DVD iso on my iPod First, usb-storage isn't loaded if I don't have the iPod plugged in. It should be loaded automatically. Finally, it tells me that I don't have a partition on sda (the iPod). It should recognise the iPod's partition table, and not try to erase it.
We only load drivers for devices that seem to be there -- thus, if there's no usb-storage plugged in, we don't load it. What does the output of print from parted on the ipod show?
(In reply to comment #1) > We only load drivers for devices that seem to be there -- thus, if there's no > usb-storage plugged in, we don't load it. But it's not possible to load the driver afterwards, and I needed to reboot to get the iPod recognised. > What does the output of print from parted on the ipod show? # parted /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Error: Unable to open /dev/sdb - unrecognised disk label. # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 10 80293+ 0 Empty /dev/sdb2 11 3648 29222235 b W95 FAT32 Smells like a bug in parted.
Reassigning to parted on the basis of comment #2. Looks like if parted recognizes this partition table, we at least won't offer to reformat it. We may still offer it as a device to install to, though.
What kind of disk label is on the iPod? Is it DOS or Mac? The first partition is probably throwing off parted's label detection code because of the id 0 partition that's listed first. I don't have an iPod, so I'm not sure how I can recreate this problem. Can you give me a dd image of the entire contents of /dev/sdb (your iPod)? That would be most helpful. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #4) > What kind of disk label is on the iPod? Is it DOS or Mac? The first partition > is probably throwing off parted's label detection code because of the id 0 > partition that's listed first. That's the partition used to install new firmwares (dd the firmware to it, unplug and restart the iPod). > I don't have an iPod, so I'm not sure how I can recreate this problem. Can you > give me a dd image of the entire contents of /dev/sdb (your iPod)? That would > be most helpful. It's a 30 GB iPod, so I'm not sure that would be the best. I'll get a dd of the first partition and first bits of the second one instead.
Created attachment 190751 [details] ipod.img I could reproduce the problem with parted with this disk image. I admit I didn't test with a more recent version of Fedora.
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Still a problem in F8.
Doesn't work on rawhide either.
Created attachment 302109 [details] patch to check for ipod partitions. Tested with parted on git and it doesn't work on that either :) There is a patch on the mailing list (somewhere), that was also discussed with Eren on the #parted channel. It seems to work for the detection of the ipod partition (or at least in my test and on Erens test as well)
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Bastien: Where you able to test this patch?
Can't really use this in fedora devel as the code there is from parted 1.8.8 (latest upstream release), not master. discussion is ongoing in upstream, not a lot of attention though.
Seems to work as expected now. $ sudo parted /dev/sdc (parted) print Model: Apple iPod (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 30.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 2 82.3MB 30.0GB 29.9GB primary fat32