I upgrade my installer to test bug:102178 My goal it is a dual boot winxp/gentoo Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.check my partition here: http://www.kemen.it/gentoo/fat32/installprofile.xml 2.make alle step 3.click install Actual Results: The installer crash and I get this error: GLIException: PartitionFormatError :FATAL: partition: could't create fat32 filesystem on /dev/hda2 Expected Results: The installer start :) you can found more info here: http://www.kemen.it/gentoo/fat32/installer.log http://www.kemen.it/gentoo/fat32/installprofile.xml My old linux partion are lost. #parted -s /dev/hda print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-57231.562 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 20002.807 primary ntfs boot 2 20002.808 29957.146 primary fat32 # gpart /dev/hda Checking partitions... Partition(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX): primary Partition(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT): primary Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Ok. Guessed primary partition table: Primary partition(1) type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) size: 20002mb #s(40965680) s(63-40965742) chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/15/63)d (0/1/1)-(40640/9/56)r Primary partition(2) type: 011(0x0B)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) size: 9546mb #s(19551105) s(40965750-60516854) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (40640/10/1)-(60036/8/63)r Primary partition(3) type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86) size: 1913mb #s(3919856) s(60516855-64436710) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (60036/9/1)-(63925/4/59)r Primary partition(4) type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) size: 25768mb #s(52773520) s(64436715-117210234) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (63925/5/1)-(116279/15/58)r
After fat32 problem I restore my partion with gpart. I crate a new setup: http://www.kemen.it/gentoo/swap/installprofile.xml and when I start the the install I get this error: FATAL: partition: could't create linux-swap filesystem on /dev/hda6 more info: http://www.kemen.it/gentoo/swap/installer.log I checked installprofile.xml and this entry it's stange: <partition format="True" mb="0" minor="5" mkfsopts="" mountopts="defaults" mountpoint="/boot" origminor="0" type="ext2"/> My /boot partion it would be 30MB but in the graphic installer I get always 0MB anyway I hope this report can help you to understand the problem regards
I see that the fat32 already exists in the second run. Were you able to create the fat32 filesystem by hand with 'mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hda2'? The failure to create the swap probably has something to do with partition 5 being 0MB. I'm pretty sure I know why that's happening. Currently, in the GTK frontend, you can only size a partition in chunks of (<available space> / <width of slider widget in pixels (~500)>). In your case, it looks like the smallest /boot partitions you would have been able to make is 55MB. Next time, use the slider and only go one "notch" above zero. This should give you ~55MB in the text field below the slider. I'm guessing you were entering 30 in the text field below the slider. When focus went away from that text field, the value was translated into a slider position, which would have been <1 and set to 0 again.
(In reply to comment #2) > I see that the fat32 already exists in the second run. Were you able to create > the fat32 filesystem by hand with 'mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hda2'? Yes I do. > I'm guessing you were entering 30 in the text field > below the slider. When focus went away from that text field, the value was > translated into a slider position, which would have been <1 and set to 0 again. I get a gentoo from GLI after I used fdisk. In GLI I just add mount points ("/" and "/boot"). Anyway, you are right about boot partition dimension. I have see a message in console "float divison by zero" .
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the original failure described was due to the disappearing act udev likes to pull on the /dev nodes. The way the partitioning code does the formatting has been modified in a way that will let it handle this situation much better.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
