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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327612

           Summary: Parted does not recognise partitions during installation
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: RC 1
          Platform: i686
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Installation
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: mike@xxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: Customer


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.


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