Bug 135575

Summary:	the partitioning doesn't recognize the existing partitions
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Massimo Bellemo <mirmax>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
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Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	y2logs.tgz new y2logs.tgz

Description Massimo Bellemo 2005-11-25 17:23:01 UTC

While installing SUSE 10.0 the partitioning doesn't recognize the existing partitions and propose to create /dev/hda1 (1GB swap) and /dev/hda2 (all remaining hard disk space).
The same going in expert mode and re-reading the partition table

System: Multi booted with win and linux.

How to reproduce: every time while installing

Comment 1 Massimo Bellemo 2005-11-25 17:26:44 UTC

Created attachment 58770 [details]
y2logs.tgz

Comment 2 Arvin Schnell 2005-11-28 08:35:20 UTC

I can't unpack the logs:

-> gunzip y2logs.tgz
gunzip: y2logs.tgz: invalid compressed data--format violated

Please attach a correct version.

Comment 3 Massimo Bellemo 2005-11-28 19:32:13 UTC

Created attachment 58860 [details]
new y2logs.tgz

here the new y2logs.tgz, now double checked...

Comment 4 Arvin Schnell 2005-11-29 08:37:11 UTC

Parted reports that you have overlapping partitions.  fdisk reports
this partition table:

/dev/hda1   *           1        1275    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1276        9965    69801826+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3            8417        9024     4882752   83  Linux
/dev/hda5            1276        1307      257008+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            1308        2549     9976333+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            2550        2679     1044193+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            2680        3953    10233373+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda9            3954        4591     5119632   83  Linux
/dev/hda10           4591        7779    25612650    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda11           7780        8416     5116671   83  Linux
/dev/hda12           9025        9965     7557952+  83  Linux

Looks as if hda2 should be an extended partition.  How did you create
those partitions?  I strongly recomment to make a backup before touching
any partitions.

Comment 5 Massimo Bellemo 2005-11-29 17:44:22 UTC

After quick resolving the problem with the overlapping partition the installer showed all the existing partition permitting to complete the installation on SUSE 10 (that I am actually using, thank you Arvin!).

A note for a situation like mine with a hard disk with an incorrect partition scheme is that a warning or alert message can be more usefull instead of proposing a complete disk formatting.

ciao

Comment 6 Arvin Schnell 2005-11-30 08:40:23 UTC

Yes, a warning would be useful.

Comment 7 Thomas Fehr 2006-01-17 15:53:07 UTC

Popup with warning is now finally visible again.