I had four partitions on my disk, marked one of them to mount on / a second one to mount on / . Specified the / partition to be formatted. The installer failed with the following output. Unfortunately it appears the old partitions have all been deleted :( GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - partitioning: Processing /dev/hda... GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 1 has origminor 1...saving start sector 63 and end sector 28322594 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 2 has origminor 2...saving start sector 28322595 and end sector 77144129 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 4 has origminor 4...saving start sector 116214210 and end sector 117210239 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Deleting old minor 1 to be recreated later GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Deleting old minor 2 to be recreated later GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Deleting old minor 4 to be recreated later GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partitioning: Second pass... GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partitioning: Third pass....creating partitions GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Drive has 117210240 sectors GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 1 has 13829MB GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Old start sector 63 retrieved GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Retrieved start sector is not the same as the calculated next start sector GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Old end sector 28322594 retrieved GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Adding primary partition 1 from 63 to 28322594 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of the normal install errors. The error was: ''unknown''
(In reply to comment #0) > I had four partitions on my disk, marked one of them to mount on / > a second one to mount on /data thats what i meant...
There was more to the error after that. Also, can you attach your /tmp/installprofile.xml and /var/log/installer.log.failed?
The whole /var/log/installer.log.failed follows. The file /tmp/installprofile.xml is not up to date anymore since i try to get a system now :D However I am absolutely sure I did not select any partition to be deleted. GLI: March 22 2006 18:56:45 - Setting root password. GLI: March 22 2006 18:56:46 - Livecd root password set. GLI: March 22 2006 18:56:46 - Portmap started. GLI: March 22 2006 18:56:46 - Completed pre_install steps GLI: March 22 2006 20:17:02 - Partition table for /dev/hda is unchanged...skipping GLI: March 22 2006 20:17:05 - Mounted mountpoint: / GLI: March 22 2006 20:17:05 - Mounted mountpoint: /data GLI: March 22 2006 20:18:57 - Setting root password. GLI: March 22 2006 20:18:57 - Livecd root password set. GLI: March 22 2006 20:18:58 - Portmap started. GLI: March 22 2006 20:18:58 - Completed pre_install steps GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - partitioning: Processing /dev/hda... GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 1 has origminor 1...saving start sector 63 and end sector 28322594 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 2 has origminor 2...saving start sector 28322595 and end sector 77144129 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 4 has origminor 4...saving start sector 116214210 and end sector 117210239 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Deleting old minor 1 to be recreated later GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Deleting old minor 2 to be recreated later GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Deleting old minor 4 to be recreated later GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partitioning: Second pass... GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partitioning: Third pass....creating partitions GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Drive has 117210240 sectors GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Partition 1 has 13829MB GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Old start sector 63 retrieved GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Retrieved start sector is not the same as the calculated next start sector GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Old end sector 28322594 retrieved GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Adding primary partition 1 from 63 to 28322594 GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of the normal install errors. The error was: ''unknown'' GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 165, in run self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']() GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 336, in partition self._add_partition(parted_disk, start, end, "primary", newpart['type']) GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 69, in _add_partition if fs: fstype = fsTypes[fs] GLI: March 22 2006 20:25:46 - KeyError: 'unknown'
Were you using the graphical or commandline frontend?
I use the graphical installer.
Then you ignored the warning that the partitioning screen pops up when you first go to it that tells you that continuing with unsupported partition types will likely do bad things to your partition table.
Indeed I did not notice any warnings... My particular partitioning scheme was: hda1 : NTFS hda2 : FAT32 hda3 : EXT3 hda4 : Linux Swap So I guess the NTFS type is what is considered unsupported. Anyway, why is this a problem for the installer? Just leave-as-is not possible?
NTFS is supported. Although, if you had created the partition and not formatted it, the installer wouldn't have recognized it.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
