Bug 124478 – Unable to get partition information...

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Eric 2006-02-28 18:55:26 UTC]

i recently decided i would take a stab at testing out the gli. everything looks great until you get to the partitioning peice. i am using a sata disk, and when presented with my partition layout, i see a blank layout instead of what you should see ...which is my 2 windows partitions, and my 3 partitions i had from a previous install (boot=512mb, swap=2048gb, root=54gb). i've verified that the information from a terminal session (fdisk -l) presents me with my correct drives / devices ...which it does.

i am able to reproduce the problem multiple times.

[Comment 1 Eric 2006-02-28 19:02:07 UTC]

I stand corrected, my partitioning scheme is a little different, but its still correct. Here's the output from 'fdisk -l'

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2630    21125443+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            2631       19452   135122715    5  Extended
/dev/sda3   *       17494       17559      530145   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           17560       17821     2104515   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5            2631       17493   119387016    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           17822       19452    13100976   83  Linux

[Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-02-28 19:06:09 UTC]

You have a very odd partition layout. The installer's partitioning code cannot handle (and likely never will) an existing disk layout where partitions are out of disk order.

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-02-28 19:31:26 UTC]

Talked on IRC :)

[Comment 4 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 13:46:38 UTC]

Moving to Release Media/Installer.