Bugzilla – Bug 134652
installation on ibook will destroy partition table
Last modified: 2006-09-28 13:24:59 UTC
I installed SL 10.1 on iBook. I had already installed MacOS X. I select default installation and let Yast to manage disk partitioning. After for mating disk to ReiserFS Yast come up with strange error (in partitioning phase) and continued with copying files, after reboot i realized that no bootloader was installed, and whole partition table was deleted. I was able to see partitions with pdisk, but Yast or Mac OS was not able to see them. I reinstall MacOS and try install SL again, but with same error. I stop here and try manual installation/rescue i will attach pdisk and parted output. Yast now see same partitioning as parted.
Created attachment 57867 [details] output of parted and pdisk
Please, attach also YaST logs.
We are unable to access logs, they are on the destroyed root partition.
We have made some fixed concerning mac partition tables. But without the YaST2 logs or at least the exact strange error it's not possible to help at all.
I heard that these corruption will not happen anymore, because yast will ignore everything it doesnt know about. Which is essentially everything except msdos label.
YaST also knows about mac and gpt. It doesn't know about amiga.
Should be fixed in SL 10.1 beta#4
I install beta3,4 now 5. And i think i find out something. There is no support for hfs in yast instalation and if you format something as hsf disk, or mount hfs disk, yast end with error. I think that this behavior cause this bug. Yast crash with beta 5 when mounting existing hsf disk. Error message was that hsf disk cannot be mounted.
formating hfs works for me. be more specific about what you are doing.
Whenever i choose format some partition as hsf in instalation. Yast try to do this and end with error message. After this instalation is aborted. I was able to reproduce this behavior on beta 4 and 5. I did not test it on beta 6. My original problem was, that i choose reformat existing hsf partition in order to install yaboot. Yast crash and startup partition was not formated properly.
do you have the yast2 logs for that install? Please attach them.
Need y2log files
Finally. I tested beta8. Instalation crash when formating existing swap. HSF format works fine. I am attaching yast logs
Created attachment 73967 [details] yast log
Removing needinfo
Parted was unable to set raid partition type to "off" on mac disklabel, I skipped setting of this type on mac disklabel. Please retry with RC1.
I test it with beta 9 and it work fine.