Hi,
Excuse me jumping on the mailing list and posting immediately, but this is
driving me crazy and I'm about at the end of my rope. And of course, this is
a machine that's needed yesterday.
First, hardware is not my strength, and I don't know much about the ins and
outs of MSDOS vs GPT, etc. But I figure part of the point of setup_storage is
that we don't need to - it should just do the right thing.
I'm trying to install a machine that has 6 spinning disks in a 12 TB hardware
RAID5 array plus 4 500 GB stand-alone SSDs. The SSDs will be for data only
while the 12 TB array (which is much bigger than what is needed) will have the
OS and /home.
Here's my disk_config for this machine:
disk_config /dev/sda disklabel:msdos
primary - 0- - -
disk_config /dev/sdb disklabel:msdos
primary - 0- - -
disk_config /dev/sdc disklabel:msdos
primary - 0- - -
disk_config /dev/sdd disklabel:msdos
primary - 0- - -
disk_config /dev/sde disklabel:gpt bootable:1
primary /boot 1G - -
primary / 100G - -
primary swap 32G swap sw
primary /usr 100G - -
primary /var 100G - -
primary /home 0- - -
I tried both MSDOS and GPT for the SSD disks but it made no difference.
first problem:
Executing: parted -s /dev/sdc mkpart primary "" 1048576B 511570853375B
Command had non-zero exit code
Error in task partition. Code: 710
Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task
main
$LOGUSER is undefined. Not saving log files to remote.
FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped.
root@host:/# parted -s /dev/sdc mkpart primary "" 1048576B 511570853375B
Error: You requested a partition from 1049kB to 512GB.
The closest location we can manage is 1048kB to 1048kB.
this actually happened on sdd first, so I commented it out and got the same
with sdc which you see here.
Since the SSDs will be for data and can be setup post-installation, I tried
commenting them out entirely.
Second problem:
Executing: mkswap /dev/sde3
Command had non-zero exit code
Error in task partition. Code: 710
Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task
main
$LOGUSER is undefined. Not saving log files to remote.
FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped.
root@host:/# mkswap /dev/sde3
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 33554428 KiB
no label, UUID=45d81993-fbfc-41ab-ac33-a2bce711001d
root@host:/# echo $?
0
As you can see, the command it appeared to choke on ran just fine. So perhaps
the command before was the one to generate the error:
root@host:/# parted -s /dev/sde mkpart primary "" 357557075968B 12000138608127B
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
I'm clearly missing something and I'm desperately in search of enlightenment.
Any help anyone can provide will be gratefully received.
Thanks,
Geoff.
