Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 42735
Anaconda doesn't stop with type 0 partitions present
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:28 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010421 Description of problem: Early on in the install process, anaconda warns about type 0 partitions on hda (holes left there by Partition Magic). It says it cannot proceed, but does so anyway. Later, when configuring LILO, it crashes because there are no partitions in its list of bootable partitions, and it dies with an array out of bounds exception. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create a type 0 partition 2.try to install. Carry on after warning about type 0 partitions 3.try to configure LILO Actual Results: LILO configuration crashes with an array bounds exception and the system reboots Expected Results: Either: - installation should cope with type 0 partitions (what's the problem?) - installation should cleanly stop when it detects them Additional info: I worked around it by using Partition magic to create a couple of ext2 filesystems in the gaps. The installer was happy with this.
I don't know exactly what the problem is. I don't have Partition Magic, but I tried making type 0 partitions with fdisk. I get a message saying: "Type 0 means free space to many systems (but not to Linux). Having partitions of type 0 is probably unwise. You can delete a partition using the 'd' command. Changed system type of partition 1 to 0 (Empty)" The entire partitioning subsystem is being re-engineered, so this problem will be addressed in a future release. Thanks for your report.