I began to partition the drive using GParted and I got this: "Libparted Bug
Found! Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sda."
Ignoring this I created my partition scheme and was given the same error
message and a detailed report:
GParted 0.18.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 2.3
Create Primary Partition #1 (ext4, 200.00 MiB) on /dev/sda 00:00:29 (ERROR)
create empty partition 00:00:29 (SUCCESS)
path:/dev/sda1
start:2048
end:411647
size:409600 (200 MiB)
clear old file system signatures in /dev/sda1 00:00:00 (SUCCESS)
write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 (SUCCESS)
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 (SUCCESS)
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 209711104 00:00:00 (SUCCESS)
flush operating system cache of /dev/sda 00:00:00 (SUCCESS)
set partition type on /dev/sda1 00:00:00 (SUCCESS)
new partition type: ext4
create new ext4 file system 00:00:00 (ERROR)
mkfs.ext4 -L "/boot" /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
/dev/sda1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a
filesystem here!
libparted messages (INFO)
Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sda.
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Create Primary Partition #2 (linux-swap, 11.72 GiB) on /dev/sda
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Create Primary Partition #3 (ext4, 29.30 GiB) on /dev/sda
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Create Primary Partition #4 (ext4, 70.58 GiB) on /dev/sda
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