Bug 12718

Summary: drakinstall fails to detect the right disks
Product: Mageia Reporter: André DESMOTTES <lebarhon>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal Keywords: NEEDINFO
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description André DESMOTTES 2014-02-11 10:55:00 CET
Description of problem:
In order to install Cauldron (x86_64 DVD KDE before Mageia 4 release) from a USB stick on an old PC (2008) I had to enter the BIOS to declare the USB stick as the first HD to boot from. 
The first steps went fine until the partionning. There, the USB stick was called sde and the HD sdf. With sdf selected, I checked "Use existing partitions", "next", suggested partitions were sdf5 for / and sdf7 for /home. OK
Formating: sdf5 only, OK, then an error message: "An error ocurred, the swap format for sde5 failed" (French retranslated in English).
It was really sd*e*5, of course sde is in read only mode. I steped back and tried again, same result.
Workaround I tried: "customized partitions", partionning of sdf5, back, "Use existing partitions" -> same result
Back, sde selected, "customized partitions", delete sde5 (created after the place taken by the image), back, sdf selected, "existing partitions", uncheck sdf5 for no partitionning, and the following went fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia Cauldron 2 weeks before the release

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Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2014-02-11 16:35:21 CET
*** Bug 12719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Manuel Hiebel 2014-02-11 16:51:29 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2014-11-27 17:53:36 CET
If you can reproduce it, we would need the installer logs (availlable in /tmp/ddebug.log)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 André DESMOTTES 2014-11-28 14:05:12 CET
I tried to reproduce the bug with Mageia 4.1 but couldn't.
Comment 4 Dick Gevers 2014-11-28 14:58:04 CET
Consequently we must close it. Anyone who can reproduce it lster has the option to reopen it.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD