[opensuse] Formatting error (-1012) when installing Opensuse 10.2
Hi all, I'm trying to install Opesuse 10.2 on a Dell D620 with an 80GB SATA drive (with 2GB RAM). The installation fails at the point where Yast tries to format the disk space allocated to it. The following error is reported: Failure occurred during the following action: Setting type of partition /dev/sda6 to 83 System error code was: -1012 My progress has been as follows: Attempt 1: Standard network install using mini ISO. I accepted the default partitioning scheme. Yast happily created a 2GB swap partition, a 10GB home partition and a 7.7 GB root partition. Having accepted this scheme, it fails with the above error. Attempt 2: Just in case there's something fishy about having a 2GB swap partition, I planned to resize this to 1GB. On retrying, Yast couldn't understand the partition table and refused to make any changes. Luckily windows could still boot and put things back to the original state. Attempt 3: Go into expert mode and manually create a 1GB swap partition and a 19GB root partition (no separate home partition this time). Same failure occurs Attempt 4: Use windows to create the required partitions (1GB and 19GB) and tell Yast to use these partition rather than create it's own. Same failure occurs. A bit of Googl'ing suggests that error 1012 means that the partition table cannot be written to (but I could be wrong). Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot or work around this? I can't find any mention of it on the Suse support db or mailing lists that sound relevant. Thanks, -Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Philip Bradley wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to install Opesuse 10.2 on a Dell D620 with an 80GB SATA drive (with 2GB RAM). The installation fails at the point where Yast tries to format the disk space allocated to it. The following error is reported:
Failure occurred during the following action: Setting type of partition /dev/sda6 to 83
System error code was: -1012
When you boot off the DVD, try the option called "Installation--ACPI Disabeled". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thanks for your suggestion. I actually got it working so below is a summary of what I did for the benefit of anyone else having the same problem: 1. Deleted any of the partitions created for/by linux (leaving the Windows main partition, the recovery partition and the dell utility partition) using the windows disk manager 2. Created the two required partitions for Linux again using windows. This time I explicitly went back into the settings for each of the new partitions and set them to be "Extended". Yast is now happy to proceed with formatting. According to the posting below from the Windows Vista blog, the disk manager is supposed to just do the *right thing* when it comes to partitions being either primary or extended. I don't want to spend too much time troubleshooting this but it seems to have got a bit confused on this occasion. http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/10/16/how-to-create-an-extende... This would also seem to indicate a bug in Yast since the initial install was done by accepting all of the defaults with a vanilla partition table. Anyway, hopefully the above posting will prove useful to someone. -phil On Monday 30 July 2007 17:08, Kenneth Aar wrote:
Philip Bradley wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to install Opesuse 10.2 on a Dell D620 with an 80GB SATA drive (with 2GB RAM). The installation fails at the point where Yast tries to format the disk space allocated to it. The following error is reported:
Failure occurred during the following action: Setting type of partition /dev/sda6 to 83
System error code was: -1012
When you boot off the DVD, try the option called "Installation--ACPI Disabeled". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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