From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: I am installing RH7.3 on a compaq deskpro with a 200 MHz PPro. There is a 2 block partition on hda for compaq diagnostics. It is of partition type 12. However, the step following fdisk setup, the installer insists that it is a swap partition. I verified several time with fdisk that the partition type is 12. I also tried changing the partition type to DOS and a few other values. However, the installer sees that 2 block partition only as swap. I then select don't format as I don't want to lose that partition. The installer then dies saying it couldn't use that partition. I do have a 300MB swap partition on hda2. However, that does not keep the installer from aborting. So, for the moment I solved the problem by deleting the 2 block compaq diagnostics partition and that is working right now. However, it would be good if you could fix this bug. Please contact me if you need any more information. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start installation on disk with 2 block compaq diagnostics partition on hda1 (ide drive) 2.Select don't format option for this partition 3.installer will abort Actual Results: description says it all Additional info:
Assigngin to an engineer.
When it aborts, does it give a traceback? Could you attach that to this bug report? Also, if you run parted on the drive, does it recognize the partition as swap?
When it aborts, there is stuff that flashes by on the screen. When I try and reboot, it just hangs. So, I don't have access to the traceback. Is there a way to get the traceback? I haven't run parted on the drive, however, anaconda seems to think it is swap even when I change it to various other partition types. Fdisk interprets the partition type correctly each time. I had a similar problem with another system I was installing. The disk had a single linux partition (ext2), however anaconda thought it was swap till I went into edit and changed it format it as ext3. Seems like there is some problem with anaconda not recognizing partition types correctly.
We use parted as our partitioning backend, hence why I wanted to verify that it was parted misinterpreting. Note that parted actually does probing of the filesystem instead of just looking at the numeric ID because the numeric IDs in DOS partition tables are not conclusive and can regularly be misleading.
Closing due to inactivty, please reopen if you have additional information to add.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.