Bug 327612

Summary:	Parted does not recognise partitions during installation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Michael Leuty <mike>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Tejun Heo <teheo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mike
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	y2 installation logs /var/log/boot.msg file

Description Michael Leuty 2007-09-23 22:09:45 UTC

I have two hard drives on my primary IDE controller

/dev/sda1 is NTFS
/dev/sda2 is FAT32
/dev/sda3 is EXT3

/dev/sdb1 is SWAP
/dev/sdb2 is EXT3
/dev/sdb3 is EXT3

I was doing a fresh installation of openSUSE 10.3 RC1. When I got to the partitioning stage I received an error message "The partitioning on disk /dev/sda is not readable by the partitioning tool parted. You can use the patitions on disk /dev/sda as they are..."

I selected "Custom Setup" and when I got to the screen where the partitions are listed, sda1 sda2 and sda3 were all listed as "Linux". I could not get them to change to NTFS or FAT32 using Edit. When I tried to mount them using Edit, sda1 mounted but trying to mount sda2 and sda3 gave an error message "it is not allowed to assign a mount point to a device with nonexistant or unknown file system".

I proceeded to install openSUSE on /dev/sdb, with sdb2 as / and sdb3 as /home. Installation proceeded normally, but whenever I booted the installed system the boot process spent a long time trying to access /dev/sda and complaining that it could not do so.

I do not think that this is a hardware problem because I subsequently ran the openSUSE 10.2 installation program which correctly detected all the partitions on the two hard disks.

Comment 1 Michael Leuty 2007-09-23 22:12:06 UTC

Created attachment 174098 [details]
y2 installation logs

Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2007-09-24 11:32:06 UTC

This is again a case where parted complains about partitions outsize of disk
for /dev/sda. 

Tejun, could you have a look of this is a duplicate of the disk size detection
problem you reported a fix on suse-kernel these days.

/proc/partitions looks 
8     0    5544943 sda
8     1    8385898 sda1
8     2    2096482 sda2
8     3   28611765 sda3
8    16  195360984 sdb
8    17    2104483 sdb1
8    18   20972857 sdb2
8    19  172281060 sdb3

which makes sda smaller that even sda1.

Comment 3 Tejun Heo 2007-09-24 16:24:17 UTC

Yes, that was bug 325552 and this one looks like a duplicate.  Michael, please post /var/log/boot.msg from SL103 after the long boot completes.  Thanks.

Comment 4 Michael Leuty 2007-09-24 19:25:57 UTC

Unfortunately I've reverted to 10.2 on this box. However, from memory I was getting the same problem as described in bug 325552, viz.
"Boot process shows a lot of "attempt to access beyond end of device" lines".

As soon as I get time I will reinstall 10.3 and post /var/log/boot.msg as requested. 

Am I likely to be able to solve the problem by installing kernel 2.22.5-29 from Factory?

Comment 5 Michael Leuty 2007-09-24 21:59:06 UTC

Created attachment 174466 [details]
/var/log/boot.msg file

Comment 6 Michael Leuty 2007-09-24 22:01:42 UTC

OK, I've reinstalled 10.3 RC1, and I attach /var/log/boot.msg as requested.

The problem is still occurring with the latest 2.6.22.5-29-default kernel.

When I use the YaST partitioning tool I get the same message about parted being unable to read /dev/sda, and it shows /dev/sda as being 5.2GB where /dev/sda1 alone is 7.9GB.

Comment 7 Tejun Heo 2007-09-24 22:11:16 UTC

Yeap, that's the same problem.  KOTD should have it fixed.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/HEAD/i386/kernel-default-2.6.22.5-20070921222900.i586.rpm

Marking duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 325552 ***

Comment 8 Michael Leuty 2007-09-24 22:43:12 UTC

I can confirm that booting with the KOTD solves the problem. The error messages no longer appear while booting, and the YaST partitioner is able to read /dev/sda and mount the three partitions.

Thank you for resolving this so speedily. It's a pleasure to report bugs to you.  :-)

Comment 9 Tejun Heo 2007-09-25 02:42:16 UTC

Thanks. :-)