| Summary: | creation of fat32 partition failed | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Lorenzo Sicilia <arnor> |
| Component: | Installer | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | critical | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Lorenzo Sicilia
2005-08-13 05:17:25 UTC
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. |
