Bug 18704 - Custom partitioning blocks installation on existing partitions
Summary: Custom partitioning blocks installation on existing partitions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: 6sta1
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-06-14 11:51 CEST by Herman Viaene
Modified: 2016-06-16 17:46 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM:
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments

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


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.