Bug 110058 – GLI delete all the partitions on the external hard drive

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Elad Bar 2005-10-21 11:57:41 UTC]

I wanted to install gentoo with the GLI livecd on my external hard drive.
I had 2 ext3 partitoins I wasn't useing so I told it to mount one as / (root)
and one as /home and to mount the swap on the internal hard drive.
Whan I presed INSTALL, I got an erroe message that told my to report a bug.
I restarted my computer and found the I lost all the partitions on my external
hard drive. ( the data was recovered with TestDisk ) 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Not delete the partition table

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2005-10-21 12:05:59 UTC]

It would have been nice if you had actually reported the first bug like it
asked, but oh well. Most likely, you've hit one of the ~6 partitioning bugs that
were present in the alpha release. All bugs that were reported have been fixed
in CVS ~2 months ago. Anyway, you can follow the directions at
<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/faq.xml#newerversion> for
updating to the latest CSV snapshot and try again if you'd like. Alternatively,
we'll be releasing a new LiveCD with 0.2 of the installer very soon.

[Comment 2 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 13:46:35 UTC]

Moving to Release Media/Installer.