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Bug 574290 - sda must have a msdos disk label
Summary: sda must have a msdos disk label
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 572488
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 13
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-03-17 03:30 UTC by Christian Kujau
Modified: 2010-03-17 13:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-03-17 13:38:16 UTC
Type: ---
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syslog, dmesg, anaconda.log and a few more details (deleted)
2010-03-17 03:30 UTC, Christian Kujau 		no flags Details
sda must have a msdos disk label (deleted)
2010-03-17 08:18 UTC, Christian Kujau 		no flags Details
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Description Christian Kujau 2010-03-17 03:30:45 UTC 
Created attachment 400623 [details]
syslog, dmesg, anaconda.log and a few more details

Description of problem:

When booting F13-Alpha netinst (Jigdo[0], March 08, verified cdrom) on a MacBook Pro, I answer "create custom layout" in the GUI installer. I choose an existing sda4 as root filesystem (to be formatted as ext4), sda3 as swap - but when clicking on "Next", I get:

    sda must have a msdos disk label

[0] http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/test/13-Alpha/Fedora/x86_64/jigdo


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 13 Alpha

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot netinst into GUI installer on MacBook Pro, with already partitioned
   disk

2. Choose "create custom layout" when partitioning disk, select partitions
   on sda (only disk in this laptop)

3. Installer says "sda must have a msdos disk label"
  
Actual results:

  sda must have a msdos disk label

Expected results:

  "Your disk has a GPT disk label, that's OK for 2010, we can boot here" :-)

Additional info:

$ parted -l
Model: ATA TOSHIBA MK2555GS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      20.5kB  210MB   210MB   fat32        EFI System Partition  boot
 2      210MB   50.2GB  50.0GB  hfsx         osx
 3      50.3GB  54.4GB  4099MB               swap
 4      54.4GB  84.4GB  30.0GB  ext4         linux                 boot
 5      84.4GB  250GB   166GB                data
Comment 1 Christian Kujau 2010-03-17 03:36:55 UTC 
To be more clear on the disk layout here:

- there's MacOS installed on sda2, ready & usable
- there's currently an Ubuntu installed on sda4, using sda3 as swapdisk, also
  ready & usable (also bootable, via refit.sf.net->Grub).
- I want to install F13 on sda4, using sda3 as swapdisk (wiping out ubuntu, har
  har)
- I don't want sda1,sda2,sda5 to be touched, so I can't just switch to an
  msdos disklabel (or can I? With MacOS X still booting?)
Comment 2 Christian Kujau 2010-03-17 08:17:10 UTC 
I'm able to reproduce this in a virtualbox VM:

1) start Fedora-13-Alpha-x86_64-netinst.iso in a new VirtualBox VM, one
   4GB disk, 1GB RAM

1a) X11 fails to start in VirtualBox, so Anaconda falls back to textmode.
    We won't be able to create a "custom layout", apparently.

2) switch to another textconsole and do the following to the pristine disk:
   $ parted /dev/sda
   $ mklabel gpt
   $ q

3) switch back to the textmode installer, choose "entire drive" and "sda" and
   it will say, again:

      sda must have a msdos disk label


I switched back to the other console, deleted the label and put a "msdos" disklabel on the disk (notice, that there are still NO partitions on the disk), switched back to the installer -> same error messages.

However, when I repeat the process a few times, *sometimes* it'd let me "write changes to disk". But only when either "no" or an "msdos" disklabel was on the disk.

But as the textmode installer won't let me create a custom layout (I don't want to use the entire disk nor do I want it to create those LVM devices - it's a Laptop!), I hope that somebody will have another look at the installer routines...

Thanks.
Comment 3 Christian Kujau 2010-03-17 08:18:38 UTC 
Created attachment 400666 [details]
sda must have a msdos disk label
Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2010-03-17 13:38:16 UTC 
This is similar to the discussion going on over in bug 572488, so I'm going to dup this bug to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 572488 ***
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