Bugzilla – Bug 118721
10.0RC1 HD partitions not detected during install, install aborted
Last modified: 2005-09-29 08:53:37 UTC
Can't install 10.0RC1 in a multiboot enviroment because existing disk partitioning is not detected during the install process. Existing Partions, from beginning of HD to end ID OS USE FILE_SYSTEM hda5 suse9.1 / ext3 hda6 suse9.1 /tmp ext3 hda7 swap linuxswap hda8 suse9.1 /home ext3 hda2 WindowsXP C: NTFS hda10 Linux Beta / ext3 (target / for this install) hda11 swap linuxswap hda12 Linux Beta /home ext3 (target /home for this install) hda9 SharedData D: vfat I have used the "Linux Beta" partitions for other test installs, Mandriva, Slackware, etc and I have'nt had trouble installing to the partitions before. The Opensuse 10.0 RC1 installer does not see any of these partitions, just an unpartitioned 60G hda. I note that these partions were not all created at the same time, and have been resized at different times (hence the unusual order), however all my OS's don't have a problem with them, including Suse9.1 LILO on the MBR is controlled by the Suse9.1 install, and XP and the Beta Linux are chainloaded. I install LILO for betas on the root of the target / partition. System: HP ZE4500 (DM371AV) AMD laptop Bios: Phoenix Tech KAM1.59 April 19 2004 AMD 2500+ Mobile w/512K cache (Barton Core) Bios shows as 1795 MHz Mainboard HP 0024 PQ1A84 2x512M memory, 960M available, 64M for video 60gig Hitachi_DK23EA-60 harddrive revision 00K2A0A2 SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-324f 3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE Radeon IGP 320M dispaly adapter HP Digital 1024x768 Monitor 19.7" visable ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller o2Micro OZ6912 CardBus Controller Ali PCI to USB Open Host Controller Conexant 56K ACLink Modem (I don't use it) Texas Insturments OHCI Compliant 1394 Net Adapter Ralink RT2500 internal mini-pci card 802.11b/g WLAN Nat. Semiconductor Corp DP83815/816 10/100 MacPhyter PCI Adapter Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad USB Root Hub (onboard is v1.1) I sometimes use a USB v2.0 pcmcia card, usb keyboard, usb wheel mouse
Please attach the complete directory /var/log/YaST2 see http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST
need y2log files.
Created attachment 50967 [details] same as comment I did read the referenced FAQ, but can't seem to write the requested file/dir to either a floppy or USB key Drive using the shift+f8 utility. Did a cntl+alt+f2 to a shell terminal and tried to cp to /media/floppy without success. The command executes, but does not really write to the floppy. If you would like to give a specific command to execute to get the file written to a floppy , I will give it a try.
Created attachment 51001 [details] hwinfo.out debug file, (the only one I could get written to floppy) I was able to use the write to floppy option in the expert system info to get this file. Unfortunity browsing to any other directory only resulted in the same file being written.
Unfortunately the hwinfo file is not what I need, I need the filw from /var/log/YaST2. You can simply change to a console with a shell during installation by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2. You can do the following: - start 10.0 installation and let it run up to the point where YaST2 misdetects your disks - switch to shell by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2. - mount one of the partitions at /mnt with the following commands: modprobe ext3 mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt cp -av /var/log/YaST2 /mnt umount /mnt - abort installation, reboot into your SL 9.1 installation and attach the files copied onto your disk.
Created attachment 51100 [details] tarred YaST2 directory I was able to get the requested directory using your above instructions.
Thanks for the logs, now I see what the problem with you disk layout is: The following command: "/usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/hda unit cyl print" gives the error message "Error: Can't have overlapping partitions." The problem is that your extended partition (/dev/hda1) spans cylinders 1 to 116280 (the whole disk) but your windows partition (/dev/hda2) spans cylinders 31206 to 72819 which overlaps with the extended partition. Parted does not like that situation an therefore refuses to work. Of course such a partitioning scheme is highly unusual and dangerous. Unfortunately I see no way for you to be able to install linux SL 10.0. I will change some things for SL 10.1 that will make installation on such a partition table possible again, but so far I did not consider such partition scheme existing at all. For SL10.0 installation on such a disk will unfortuantely not be possible. For SL10.1 I did the necessary changes in SVN repository to detect such a case and make YaSTE rely on partition data from /proc/partitions instead of parted in such a case.