Bug 137364

Summary: Installation hangs if too many partitions are present
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Henrik Clausen <henrik.komputer>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 3   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Description Henrik Clausen 2005-12-07 13:15:27 UTC 
Note: This occured in 10.1, but the nature of the bug makes me assume it's present in all versions.

I have a system with SATA RAID and a wealth of partitions on that drive (12), in addition to some partitions on other drives. When installing SuSE, it appropriately explains that this is not really RAID and will be seen as two distinct drives. So far, so good.

But seeing the drives as separate leads to a problem. With a total of more than 30 Windows partition in the system, some of these are automatically assigned mount points that simply lack drive letters (/mnt/windows/), and therefore are the same. Not good.

After the partitioning phase, the installer tries to mount several of the partitions to that mount point. It hangs irrecoverably when getting to the partitions that did recieve a drive letter.

This is reproducible.
Comment 1 Thomas Fehr 2005-12-08 08:51:35 UTC 
You are right, apparently you are the first to hit that problem with more than 
24 windows partitions in a system. I fixed this bug in current code base.

You can work around the problem manually by changing to expert partitioner and 
by removing all windows mount points that are either duplicate or ill-formed.