Bug 1610

Summary: Installer wanted to destroy my freeBSD drive
Product: Mageia Reporter: simon <simon.archipoff>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Low CC: marja11, pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Version: CauldronKeywords: NEEDINFO
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=134285#p842876
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 CVE:
Status comment:

Description simon 2011-06-05 17:29:55 CEST 
Description of problem:

Installer said that my freeBSD partition was corrupted and proposed me to format it


How reproducible:

Dont know, each time for me

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a freeBSD or other non-Linux partition (?)
2. Run the installer
3.
Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-10 15:41:42 CEST 
what is the type of the freebsd partition ?
Comment 2 simon 2011-07-10 22:34:00 CEST 
its an UFS2+ partition, with a strange disk layout that I cant find the name, you knows, BSD "slices"
Ahmad Samir 2011-07-11 08:12:42 CEST

CC: (none) => pterjan
Source RPM: (none) => drakxtools

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2011-07-11 08:13:36 CEST 
Please post the output of 'fdisk -l' as root.
Comment 4 simon 2011-07-11 13:07:07 CEST 
here the output for the BSD disk

Disque /dev/sdb : 82.0 Go, 81964302336 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 9964 cylindres, total 160086528 secteurs
Unités = secteurs de 1 * 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets
Identifiant de disque : 0x90909090

Périphérique Amorce  Début        Fin      Blocs     Id  Système
/dev/sdb1            2048     1538047      768000   82  partition d'échange Linux / Solaris
/dev/sdb2   *     1538048   160081919    79271936   a5  FreeBSD
Thierry Vignaud 2011-08-01 15:24:49 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-30 19:13:15 CET 
This seems to be related:
http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=134285#p842876

Assigning to maintainer

URL: (none) => http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=134285#p842876
CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: drakxtools => drakx-installer-stage2
Severity: enhancement => normal

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-01 07:32:01 CET 
Pinging, because nothing has happened with this report for more than 3 months, it still has the status NEW or REOPENED.
Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-08 18:24:37 CET 
Could you attach your /root/drakx/report.bug.gz?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Priority: Normal => Low
Severity: normal => minor

Comment 8 simon 2012-02-11 02:48:47 CET 
I tried to reproduce the bug to get this file, without success. :s 

I am sorry.
Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-27 06:57:38 CET 
(In reply to comment #8)
> I tried to reproduce the bug to get this file, without success. :s 
> 
> I am sorry.

Thanks for trying :)

Closing as old. Feel free to reopen and provide the file Thierry asked for, if you run into this issue again

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