Bug 14561

Summary:	installer unable to read correctly partition tables in multi HDD setup
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lebarhon, lovaren, marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA5
Source RPM:	drakx-tools, drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	screen shot of installer fdisk-l report

Description Ben McMonagle 2014-11-14 23:27:06 CET

Description of problem: from usb or dvd install media.on the first attempt at install, the unstaller is unable to correctly read partition tables of some existing harddrives. options are to format the drive indicated [ yes /  no buttons ] if no is chosen, there becomes no option for custom disk partitioning several screens later. a hard reboot and the installer system will behave as expected.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-5-alpha2-i586-DVD


How reproducible: on the first attempt of installation


Steps to Reproduce:
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Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2014-11-14 23:33:15 CET

Created attachment 5599 [details]
screen shot of installer

screen shot  

error also generated for sdc and sdd

Comment 2 Ben McMonagle 2014-11-14 23:34:53 CET

Created attachment 5600 [details]
fdisk-l report

fdisk-l report generated  for this settup

Dick Gevers 2014-11-21 15:43:21 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => 5alpha2

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-21 11:03:57 CEST

Is this bug still valid?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 4 Ben McMonagle 2015-05-21 12:30:00 CEST

valid for Mga5final i586 CI.

a change is that "use existing partitions" is now presented as the only option

Comment 5 André DESMOTTES 2015-11-27 10:27:27 CET

Valid also for Mga5final x86_64
http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-21242+installation-difficile-en-double-boot-windows-mageia-sur-portable.php

CC: (none) => lebarhon
Hardware: i586 => All
Whiteboard: 5alpha2 => 5alpha2 MGA5TOO

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2016-02-17 20:47:46 CET

(In reply to ben mcmonagle from comment #0)
> Description of problem: from usb or dvd install media.on the first attempt
> at install, the unstaller is unable to correctly read partition tables of
> some existing harddrives. options are to format the drive indicated [ yes / 
> no buttons ] if no is chosen, there becomes no option for custom disk
> partitioning several screens later. a hard reboot and the installer system
> will behave as expected.
> 

Is this bug stil valid for 6dev1?

If so, then please go to tty2 with "Alt+Ctrl+F2" when you see there is no option for custom disk partitioning.

Plug in a USB key, and type 

  dmesg

to see whether your USB key is on e.g. "/dev/sdb", "/dev/sdc" or "/dev/sdd", etc.

Assuming it is on /dev/sdc, do:

 mkdir sdc
 mount /dev/sdc sdc

and then copy the ddebug log to the USB key:

 cp /tmp/ddebug.log sdc/


and attach it to this bug report.

You can reboot from tty2 with "Alt+Ctrl+Delete"

CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: Mageia-5-alpha2-i586-DVD => drakx-tools, drakx-installer-stage2
Whiteboard: 5alpha2 MGA5TOO => MGA5

Comment 7 Ben McMonagle 2016-02-17 20:57:47 CET

have not noted it in the latest series of Mga6-dev1

closing as resolved- old

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

Kristoffer Grundström 2016-02-19 18:45:18 CET

CC: (none) => kristoffer.grundstrom1983