I'm having a peculiar problem with b72 install on both my laptop and Ultra 40
workstation.
What I'm trying to do, in both cases, is to run a fresh install, but the
fancy-new-installer(tm) fails in exaclty the same way with the message:
[b]Unsupported partitioning configuration[/b]
[i]SXDE does not support changing the partition type when
two or more of that type exist on disk...[/i]
The installer simply won't go any further after that.
On my laptop, I have one NTFS partition and one existing Solaris partition. On
the workstation, only a Solaris partition.
Looking in /tmp/gui-install.log, I see the following messages:
Original partitioning on device c0d0:
Partition 0: type: 7 size: 37189
Partition 1: type: 191 size: 58196
Partition 2: type: 0 size: 0
Partition 3: type: 0 size: 0
Attempting to set partitioning on device c0d0
Partition 0: type: 7 size: 37189
Partition 1: type: 191 size: 58196
Partition 2: type: 0 size: 0
Partition 3: type: 0 size: 0
Orchestrator not happy with partitioning
om_validate_and_resize_disk_partitions () failed.
Reason: OM_UNSUPPORTED_CONFIG
When I run fdisk on the same disk, it lists only the NTFS and Solaris
partitions.
It looks like there are at least two problems here:
1) The installer is (mistakenly?) thinking that there are additional zero-size
partitions on the disk
2) The installer is attempting to rewrite the partition information even though
it has not changed.
Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem so I can install a clean b72
image?
Thanks,
Trev
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