Please excuse my ignorance, but I am working under the assumption that FBA devices should be partitioned using DASD partitioning table just like the ECKD drives (using fdasd tool). If this is wrong, and e.g. ms- dos partition table should be used for FBA devices, we need to change the logic that decides which partitioning tables to use in the installer.
I can reproduce this bug, in a sense that kernel manages to read DASD partitioning table, and partitions, off FBA device including volume label, yet userspace tools parted and fdasd cannot. syslog: Jan 11 07:07:27 kernel: [ 156.679393] dasd-fba 0.0.0104: New FBA DASD 9336/10 (CU 6310/80) with 59025 MB and 512 B/blk Jan 11 07:07:27 kernel: [ 156.682792] dasdb:VOL1/ 0X0104: dasdb1 dasdb2 # cat /proc/dasd/devices 0.0.0104(FBA ) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : active at blocksize: 512, 120884827 blocks, 59025 MB # cat /proc/partitions | grep dasdb 94 4 60442413 dasdb 94 5 585920 dasdb1 94 6 59856256 dasdb2 # fdasd -p /dev/dasdb fdasd error: Unsupported disk type /dev/dasdb is not an ECKD disk! This disk type is not supported! # fdasd -f -p /dev/dasdb reading volume label ..: Cannot show requested information because the disk label block is invalid exiting... # parted /dev/dasdb print Model: IBM S390 DASD drive (dasd) Disk /dev/dasdb: 61.9GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: dasd Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 1024B 61.9GB 61.9GB -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1650300 Title: ubuntu-installer/partman does not properly detect partitions on FBA device To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/1650300/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
