Bug#237152: Ultra Enterprise 450 installation report
On 9.III.2004 at 19:30 Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>
> - Partitioning: The system has 4x36.4GB hard disks, I decided to install
> only in the fourth disk. If I ask the installer to 'Create new
> partition' and accept the default (36.4GB) value, I get immediately
> two error messages saying "ERROR!!! Can't have the end before the
> start!", and then "Unable to satisfy all constraints on the
> partition". This does not happen if I ask the partition to be only
> 30GB - Might it have something to do with the Sun disklabel scheme?
I know nothing about Sun disklabels, but it must be something either
with them or with their support in parted.
> - Partitioning: If I got the last message once, I will get it again and
> again no matter what I choose in the partitioning module. In order to
> partition my disk, I have to leave the module (with 'Go back') and get
> back in.
Acording to parted something wrong happened to the partition table.
In this situation 'Undo all changes' would also help.
> I chose automatic partitioning. If I ask the partitioner to
> use the scheme with many partitions (/usr, /usr/local, /var, /var/mail,
> etc.), and got an error telling me there was no space to create the
> last (eigth) partition. The installer took sdd3 (which should be a
> wholedisk partition) - Of course, I cancelled the partitioning and
> proceeded with the simpler root-and-home scheme offered. This time, it
> worked correctly.
>
> In /var/log/partman, I got:
> (...)
> parted_server: OUT: 8 21607686144-22032207359 424521216 primary ext3 /dev/scsi/host 1/bus0/target3/lun0/part8
> parted_server: OUT: -1 22032207360-36417116159 14384908800 primary free /dev/scsi/host 1/bus0/target3/lun0/part-1
>
> The problem seems to be parted (or one of the d-i modules) not being
> able to see beyond three bits worth of partitions :(
I can not guess what is wrong wrong in the log?
Do you know if/how parted works with Sun disklabels?
Anton Zinoviev
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