Bug 83461
| Summary: | installer does not like IBM Hibernation partition (type a0) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Donald Harper <duck> |
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-11-04 13:57:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 79579, 100644 | ||
Apparently parted is confused about this partition. Is this better with newer releases? Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen this bug if you have further information to add to the report. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021128 Description of problem: The installer seems to think this is a swap partition, and demands to format it. If you tell it not to format it (leave it alone), the installer still tries to format it as swap, and barfs when it cannot format it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set a partition to type a0 2. run the installer 3. tell it to ignore it. Actual Results: The installer chokes and dies. Expected Results: It should Ignore it. Additional info: