Bug 22539 - New disk cannot be formatted
Summary: New disk cannot be formatted
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia tools maintainers
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: (MGA6)
Keywords: NEEDINFO
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-02-07 09:55 CET by Herman Viaene
Modified: 2021-07-03 15:03 CEST (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: drakxtools, drakx-installer-stage2
CVE:
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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


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