Bug 22539

Summary:	New disk cannot be formatted
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herman Viaene <herman.viaene>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	(MGA6)
Source RPM:	drakxtools, drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Herman Viaene 2018-02-07 09:55:10 CET

Description of problem:
Installing Mageia 6 Classic installer fails wheen trying to install on a brand new disk

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


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put a brand new disk in PC (UEFI) connected on first SATA port, thus detected as /dev/sda
2.try to define one (or more) partitions on it using Custom Partitioning. The first partition proposed by the installer is /boot/EFI, thereafter you can do your own thing
3.get error : "Error in part#3" and partition table is not written to the disk, even if only 2 partitions are defined.

I got out of this by using Live Knoppix and Gparted to write a FAT partition to the whole disk, and then restarting the Mageia installation.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-02-07 11:36:14 CET

It's a pity you already found a workaround and continued, so you can no longer reproduce this issue... or did you buy two such disks? ;-)

@ anyone hitting this issue, _please_

* switch to tty2 when getting the error
* insert a USB key
* type 

      bug

* attach report.bug that was written to the USB key to this bug report

It would also be nice to know whether diskdrake in an installed system or on a Live iso have similar problems.

Source RPM: (none) => drakxtools, drakx-installer-stage2
Version: 6 => Cauldron
Whiteboard: (none) => (MGA6)
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2021-07-03 15:03:14 CEST

Closing as OLD, since this was never confirmed and there are no logs.

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