https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732673 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732673#c3 Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW CC| |martin.burnicki@meinberg.de InfoProvider|melchiaros@aol.com | --- Comment #3 from Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de> 2012-03-17 18:43:17 UTC --- Just ran into the same problem when trying to install OS 12.1 on a laptop which came with Win7 x64 preinstalled. Accepted the openSUSE installer's suggenstion to shrink the Windows partition and create a swap (sda5) plus a root partition (sda6) for Linux, without a separate home partition. When the installer returned error -1007 I switched to a different text console, ran fdisk and saw that only sda5 had been created, and fdisk said: "Partition 5 does not start on a physical sector boundary." In fdisk I deleted sda5 which had been created by the installer, and created sda5 and sda6 manually using the size proposed by the installer for the swap partition in sda5, and the remaining disk space for sda6. Then rebooted the installation system and modified the suggested partitioning such that they are only formatted and mounted. Then the rest of the installation went flawlessly. I don't know which tool is used by the installation system to suggest the partitioning and actually change the partitions at the beginning of the installation, but obviously there's something wrong with the installation system, maybe only with certain hard disk drive parameters. In any case I don't find it very user-friendly just to chage this bug to "NEEDINFO" if the reporter of the bug has already told how the problem can easily be duplicated. If you google for "opensuse installation 1007" you find a number of reports that this could already happen with OS 11.4, so someone who is familiar with the installer stuff should really have a look at this to track this down so that it can be fixed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.