the genztoo installer deletes all existing partitions and then tries to recreate all partitions, even when you dont change any partitions.,and that procedure fails sometimes. fdisk output: Platte /dev/hda: 40.0 GByte, 40007761920 Byte 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders, zusammen 78140160 Sektoren Einheiten = Sektoren von 1
the genztoo installer deletes all existing partitions and then tries to recreate all partitions, even when you dont change any partitions.,and that procedure fails sometimes. fdisk output: Platte /dev/hda: 40.0 GByte, 40007761920 Byte 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders, zusammen 78140160 Sektoren Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 × 512 = 512 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/hda1 63 17494785 8747361+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 34073865 55038689 10482412+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 55038690 78140159 11550735 5 Erweiterte /dev/hda4 17510850 34073864 8281507+ 83 Linux /dev/hda5 55038753 57127139 1044193+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 57127203 67617584 5245191 83 Linux /dev/hda7 67617648 78140159 5261256 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partitionstabelleneinträge sind nicht in Platten-Reihenfolge /var/log/installer.log.failed: GLI: October 14 2006 00:37:02 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.4.1 GLI: October 14 2006 00:37:02 - Setting root password. GLI: October 14 2006 00:37:02 - Livecd root password set. GLI: October 14 2006 00:37:04 - Portmap started. GLI: October 14 2006 00:37:04 - Completed pre_install steps GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - partition(): Processing /dev/hda... GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 1 has origminor 1...saving start sector 63 and end sector 17494785 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 4 has origminor 4...saving start sector 17510850 and end sector 34073864 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 2 has origminor 2...saving start sector 34073865 and end sector 55038689 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 3 has origminor 3...saving start sector 55038690 and end sector 78140159 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 5 has origminor 5...saving start sector 55038753 and end sector 57127139 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 7 has origminor 7...saving start sector 67617648 and end sector 78140159 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - _partition_delete_step(): Deleting partitions that aren't being resized GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Deleting old minor 7 to be recreated later GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - No match in new layout for old minor 6...deleting GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Deleting old minor 5 to be recreated later GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - _partition_delete_step(): logicals for extended part 3: [5, 6, 7] GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - _partition_delete_step(): newminor is 5 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - _partition_delete_step(): newminor is 6 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - _partition_delete_step(): newminor is 7 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - No logical partitions are being resized...deleting extended GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Deleting old minor 2 to be recreated later GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Deleting old minor 4 to be recreated later GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Deleting old minor 1 to be recreated later GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - _partition_resize_step(): Resizing partitions GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - _partition_recreate_step(): Recreating partitions GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Drive has 78140160 sectors GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 1 has 8542MB GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Old start sector 63 retrieved GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Retrieved start sector is not the same as the calculated next start sector (usually not an issue) GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Old end sector 17494785 retrieved GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Adding primary partition 1 from 63 to 17494785 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 1.03125 has 7MB GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Old start sector 17494786 retrieved GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Old end sector 17510849 retrieved GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Partition 4 has 8087MB GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Old start sector 17510850 retrieved GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Old end sector 34073864 retrieved GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Adding primary partition 4 from 17510850 to 34073864 GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of the normal install errors. The error was: 'partition not found' GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 197, in run self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']() GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 461, in partition self._partition_recreate_step(parted_disk, newparts) GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 324, in _partition_recreate_step if parted_disk.get_partition(part).is_flag_available(flag): GLI: October 14 2006 00:50:59 - error: partition not found
Created attachment 99612 [details] installprofile.xml
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Of all the fscked up partitioning schemes I've encountered, having only partitions 1 and 4 was not among them. I'm not sure *how* I can support this.
Additions & clearifications: The fdsik output I added is the exact layout before the installer deleted the partitions. I could recreate all partitions from the installer errorlog using fdisk. After the failed recreation only partition 1 was in the prartition table, all other entries were cleared. As you see, the partion numbers do not follow the physical ordering on the disk. sorted by starting sector the ordering is: hda1 hda4 hda2 hda3 <hda5 hda6 hda7> the gentoo installer presented the partitions sorted by name, that is: hda1 hda2 hda3 <hda5 hda6 hda7> hda4 It looks like that this is the point where the instaler has slight problems.
I'm not sure how to actually fix this problem, so I'm not going to. I've added a big warning message that displays when the partitioning screen loads.
