[Bug 842012] New: Unusual GPT partition types assigned during installation
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012#c0 Summary: Unusual GPT partition types assigned during installation Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 13.1 Beta 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: norbert.jurkeit@web.de QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: Beta-Customer Blocker: --- When installing OS 13.1 Beta on a computer with legacy BIOS and GPT disk (e.g. Virtualbox) and let Yast2 do the partitioning, the created partitions get unusual partition types. The swap partition is displayed as "Microsoft basic data" and the root partition as "EFI System" in gdisk/cgdisk. Besides of being somewhat confusing, this does not seem to cause real problems. Probably this behavior existed also in earlier versions. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012#c Ye Yuan <yyuan@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |yyuan@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |aschnell@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012#c1 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC| |aschnell@suse.com, | |puzel@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@suse.com> 2013-09-25 08:23:58 UTC --- With openSUSE 13.1 Beta on an empty GPT I get the following result: d235:~ # parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 8590MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 1053MB 1052MB linux-swap(v1) primary 2 1053MB 8589MB 7536MB btrfs primary boot, legacy_boot d235:~ # blkid -p /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: UUID="b4b1ceab-4c8b-420b-b09d-a5bff0e3aaba" VERSION="2" TYPE="swap" USAGE="other" PART_ENTRY_SCHEME="gpt" PART_ENTRY_NAME="primary" PART_ENTRY_UUID="2dffd1fa-a921-41a1-80b4-9131832c9784" PART_ENTRY_TYPE="ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7" PART_ENTRY_NUMBER="1" PART_ENTRY_OFFSET="2048" PART_ENTRY_SIZE="2054144" PART_ENTRY_DISK="8:0" d235:~ # blkid -p /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: UUID="4083cd6c-b73a-451e-a6ae-3222eb93ec5e" UUID_SUB="1d6329ff-adcd-4d99-924a-eb071587b696" TYPE="btrfs" USAGE="filesystem" PTTYPE="dos" PART_ENTRY_SCHEME="gpt" PART_ENTRY_NAME="primary" PART_ENTRY_UUID="9cef71f5-4428-49d9-872f-5c1b801d0a07" PART_ENTRY_TYPE="c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b" PART_ENTRY_FLAGS="0x4" PART_ENTRY_NUMBER="2" PART_ENTRY_OFFSET="2056192" PART_ENTRY_SIZE="14718976" PART_ENTRY_DISK="8:0" So the UUIDs are indeed unusual. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012#c2 --- Comment #2 from Norbert Jurkeit <norbert.jurkeit@web.de> 2013-09-25 18:34:51 UTC --- I just saw on Wikipedia that "Microsoft basic data" was indeed used for Linux due to lack of dedicated partition types, but meanwhile GPT partition types for use with Linux have been defined and should be preferred. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012#c3 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|aschnell@suse.com |puzel@suse.com --- Comment #3 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@suse.com> 2013-09-27 12:57:32 UTC --- parted sets the types and only provides some flags, e.g. boot, swap and lvm, but not e.g. linux. Even of the flags listed in the man-page some don't work for me, e.g. swap. Fixing this issue would first require a parted that supports more flags. Tested on openSUSE 12.3 with parted 2.4. openSUSE 13.1 also has 2.4. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012#c4 --- Comment #4 from Norbert Jurkeit <norbert.jurkeit@web.de> 2013-09-27 14:07:25 UTC --- I was not aware that parted is called from YaST2. I have often used gparted, but also missed operations to set the partition type there and used fdisk or gdisk instead for this purpose. In opposite to other OS Linux seems not to be picky about the partition type, and as long as no one runs into problems, it it okay to keep the current implementation. You may close the ticket. Thanks for the explanations and the fast response! -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842012#c5 Petr Uzel <puzel@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |UPSTREAM --- Comment #5 from Petr Uzel <puzel@suse.com> 2013-09-30 10:18:24 UTC --- This will be addressed with parted update. Thanks all. -- 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.
participants (1)
-
bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com