Subject: Re: Partition's Data Region doesn't occupy the entire partition ?
From: Rick Sheridan (thunder@ccountry.net)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 06:26:34 MDT
I tried the process outlined below, (although I didn't find 'pdisk' on the
'Tasty Morsels' CD). I removed the partition map on one SCSI drive.
'Parted' then recognized the drive, but I found that I needed to have the
whole drive as a 'free' partition (either that or I was unclear about using
'parted'). I reformatted the drive as 'free', and again removed the
partition map. 'Parted' then recognized the whole drive. Running 'parted'
from the rescue console from 'Tasty Morsels' works fine.
When I rebooted the YLD 2.0 installer, though, the same problem occurred.
The installer appears to require all drives/partitions to be created with
'parted'(?). Skimming through some of the threads in the gnu.org parted
mail list, I get a sense that this tool may be a bit more than picky
I am not willing to disconnect all my drives, nor to reformat all of them
again. It has been interesting, but this is far too much work just to get
YLD installed.
Thanks for all the help. It has been interesting and fun.
-- Rick
> From: Hollis <hollis-lists@austin.rr.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:29:42 -0500
> To: Chris & Lockey Krieger <L.Krieger@prodigy.net>, Rick Sheridan
> <thunder@ccountry.net>
> Cc: clausen@gnu.org, yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Partition's Data Region doesn't occupy the entire partition ?
>
> On Tuesday 19 June 2001 07:53, Chris & Lockey Krieger wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to do a YDL 2.0 install onto a Power Computing PowerCurve with a
>> Newer G3/300, 64 MB, Quatum Viking 4.2 GB SCSI drive on internal SCSI,
>> UltraTek-66 ATA controller with Toshiba DVD/CDRW on it.
>>
>> I'm trying to install onto a partition on the scsi drive, which also has my
>> MacOS install (9.1/HFS+)
>> All goes well until I get to the "edit partitions" step in the install. At
>> this point, I get:
>>
>> Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition.
>
> Here's the actual error. A similar error (if not this exact one; I forget
> exactly) has been seen on disks into which Mac OS X has been installed
> beforehand. However, both of your machines are old enough so that I suspect
> you did not attempt this.
>
>> error: Bug: Assertion (dev->open_count > 0 at device.c:822 in function
>> ped_device_close() failed.
>>
>> File /usr/lib/yi/parteditor.py line 119 in Main dev.close() # clean up
>
> This is an mistake in handling the real error and should be ignored. We are
> attempting to close a device which was never opened (due to the above error).
>
> On Tuesday 19 June 2001, Rick Sheridan wrote:
>>
>> I have run into exactly the same problem! Last night I completely
>> re-formatted my drive(s). I tried Apples 'Drive Setup', FWB's 'HD Toolkit',
>> and finally 'Silverlining'. I have 2 SCSI drives and 1 IDE/ATAPI drive.
>> Same results. I have tried formatting the intended Linux drive or partition
>> (tried both methods) as 'Free', and I have tried partitioning with 'Pdisk'
>> and 'LinuxPPC 2000Q4' installer. YDL 1.2 and LinuxPPC 2000Q4 have no
>> problem installing.
>
> GNU parted (the disk partitioning software we use in the installer) is a bit
> picky about disks being in a good state before working with them. This is
> generally good, because it won't compound any existing problems.
>
> I'm not sure why all the reformatting Rick did was ineffective, unless the
> tools he used only reformatted and didn't change the partition map.
>
> You may be able to use pdisk on the rescue ramdisk (boot from the Tasty
> Morsels CD) to delete your partition map entirely, then create a new one
> using 'parted /dev/sda mklabel mac'.
>
> (Aside: unfortunately the rescue ramdisk is missing SCSI device entries.
> Before the above command will work, you must first 'mknod /dev/sda b 8 0' to
> create the /dev/sda special file.)
>
> For the record, the version of parted used in the installer is 1.4.12.
>
> -Hollis
>
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