Bug 18704

Summary:	Custom partitioning blocks installation on existing partitions
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herman Viaene <herman.viaene>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lebarhon, thierry.vignaud, zen25000
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	6sta1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Herman Viaene 2016-06-14 11:51:38 CEST

Description of problem:
Installing the current sta1 (Sun Jun 12 22:41:35 CEST 2016) and choosing custom partitioning, further progress is impossible with the message "You must have a boot BIOS partition"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sta1

How reproducible:
All


Steps to Reproduce:
This happens on two laptops where I have multiple instances of OS's installed (and running well).
1. Acer D620 legacy BIOS, MBR disk with two working partitions (beside the swap), one for M5, one for M6 testing. Installing i586 iso. After the choices made in custom partitioning all further progress is blocked after above message appears.
2. Lenovo B50 with UEFI  and GPT disk (as reported by the gdisk command). This disk has partitions for Windows 10 (as preinstalled) on this laptop) and I free'd space to add a Linux swap, three ext4 partitions for two M5 instances and another ext4 for M6. All instances boot impeccably. Installing x86-64 iso. Exactly the same happens: after custom partitioning I get blocked at the same message.

Barry Jackson 2016-06-14 21:28:33 CEST

CC: (none) => zen25000

Comment 1 André DESMOTTES 2016-06-15 19:35:43 CEST

Hello,

I had the same problem, Mageia-6-sta1-x86_64-DVD.iso (Jun 12) on real hw, with BIOS firmware and ms dos HDD.
After installation using existing partitions, I got a Plasma DE with no panel, no menu, no icons nor widgets, it was impossible to add a panel, only widgets.
No problem on UEFI/gpt

Keywords: (none) => 6sta1
CC: (none) => lebarhon

Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-16 15:21:46 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Mageia Robot 2016-06-16 17:44:30 CEST

commit 3eba5ff412ca1b693dfa4cef5cf63d5a775a35c8
Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...>
Date:   Thu Jun 16 15:27:34 2016 +0200

    fix inverted test (mga#18656, mga#18704)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=3eba5ff412ca1b693dfa4cef5cf63d5a775a35c8

 Bug links:
   Mageia
      https://bugs.mageia.org/18656
      https://bugs.mageia.org/18704

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-16 17:46:30 CEST

Fixed

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