I am not terribly experianced with this sort of thing, so I apoligize in advance if I wasn't able to find the bug elsewere or if it was my fault. When trying out the installer from the new LiveCD, when it executed at the end, when it attempted to delete an existing partition and reformat it, it instead crashed, and left me with no partition table. It took me a long time to rescue it, and I am unwilling to try it again as I have data I'd rather not lose on this system, but I did save the installer.log and the installerprofile.xml, which I have attached. I am not knowledgable enough to <i>understand</i> what happened or why, but I hope that there's enough information here to figure that out. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: I was left with an empty partition table. Two of the three original partitions were recoverable with parted's "rescue" function, but the final one had to be manually assigned onto the remaining space, which thankfully worked. Expected Results: remove a reiserfs partion and format in it's place a ext3 partition, and then continue installing Gentoo. <a href="http://www.wireframeninjas.net/stuff/gentooinstaller.log">Installer.log</a> <a href="http://www.wireframeninjas.net/stuff/gentooinstallprofile.xml">Install Profile</a>
Created attachment 65709 [details] GLI log
Created attachment 65710 [details] Profile causing problem
That's an interesting error. I've never come across that before. Can you boot the livecd again, open up a terminal, do 'sudo su -', and give me the output of 'fdisk -s /dev/hda print'? I'd like to see which flag it was choking on.
/dev/hda: 90470520 Unable to open print ...? am I missing something here? Here's what happens when I call fdisk and print (note that I've allready fixed the partition table back the way it was) Disk /dev/hda: 92.6 GB, 92641812480 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11263 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 372 2988058+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 373 1101 5855692+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1102 11263 81626265 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
I have the same problem. I try GLI and I have lost all partition in hda. :/ Anyway,'fdisk -s /dev/hda print' return /dev/hda: 58605120 Unable to open print may be my old fstab can help you to understand: /dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults,noatime 1 0 /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda8 /virtual reiserfs defaults,noatime 1 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/d vfat auto,users,umask=0000 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/c ntfs When I choose install I get this error: http://www.kemen.it/gentoo/installer.log here my installprofile: http://www.kemen.it/gentoo/installprofile.xml I restored my partions with gpart. Many thank in advance. Your work it very appreciate here. regards
Whoops. I meant 'parted -s /dev/hda print'
Same problem here, as well. /dev/sda went untouched (i didn't specify any changes in the installer partitioner) /dev/sdb got killed. (completely?) within the installer, i wanted to change /dev/sdb2 to be my root partition and format it to ext3 (it wouldn't let me select any filesystem type, ext2 was gray-ed in). i left sdb3 alone (my working, er not any more, gentoo install) and sdb4 alone (linux-raid auto-detect, 1/2 of my /home partition, sda4 being the other half, RAID 0). my current partition table: (after the destruction) livecd ~ # parted -s /dev/sdb print Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-156334.500 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 980.529 primary linux-swap after playing around with parted's rescue function and fdisk, i've restored my table to (hopefully) working order. Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-156334.500 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 980.529 primary linux-swap 2 980.530 19108.564 primary 3 19108.564 38162.219 primary reiserfs 4 38162.219 156327.824 primary raid
I have committed a fix to the first 2 people's problem in CVS. There are instructions for running the CVS version of the installer at <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/faq.xml#newerversion>. As for Brian, I need more information to determine if your problem is the same thing. Did you get the same error in /var/log/installer.log as the other 2? If it wasn't, please re-open and attach your /var/log/install.log.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
