[indiana-discuss] Stuck at installation completing - 99%

[jan damborsky]

Hi Marco,

looking at the partition configuration, it seems you might
be hitting following fdisk bug:

6711786 fdisk(1M) refuses to modify a partition with -F
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6711786

The problem is that Solaris fdisk refuses to modify
partition table, since it thinks that last partition exceeds
the disk.

Solaris fdisk sees only 60800 cylinders available,
but /dev/sda3 ends on cylinder 60801. This is correct,
since disk actually has 60801 cylinders.
Please see bug report for details.

As a workaround, you could  try to decrease size
of /dev/sda3 (you use as Linux swap) and rerun the installation.

That said, I would assume that your first attempt failed
because of the problem with Linux swap which Dave pointed out.

For now, since your Solaris partition is marked active,
I assume that even if that installer complains that 'fdisk -F'
failed, the installation finished fine - were you able to
reboot to the installed Solaris ?

Thank you,
Jan


Marco wrote:
> Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the problem. I changed the partition type of my swap partition to ext2 and while installing OS the same thing happens. 
>
> Here's the output of pfexec fdisk -W - c4d0p0:
>
> jack at opensolaris:~$ pfexec fdisk -W - c4d0p0
>
> * /dev/rdsk/c4d0p0 default fdisk table
> * Dimensions:
> *    512 bytes/sector
> *     63 sectors/track
> *    255 tracks/cylinder
> *   60800 cylinders
> *
> * systid:
> *    1: DOSOS12
> *    2: PCIXOS
> *    4: DOSOS16
> *    5: EXTDOS
> *    6: DOSBIG
> *    7: FDISK_IFS
> *    8: FDISK_AIXBOOT
> *    9: FDISK_AIXDATA
> *   10: FDISK_0S2BOOT
> *   11: FDISK_WINDOWS
> *   12: FDISK_EXT_WIN
> *   14: FDISK_FAT95
> *   15: FDISK_EXTLBA
> *   18: DIAGPART
> *   65: FDISK_LINUX
> *   82: FDISK_CPM
> *   86: DOSDATA
> *   98: OTHEROS
> *   99: UNIXOS
> *  101: FDISK_NOVELL3
> *  119: FDISK_QNX4
> *  120: FDISK_QNX42
> *  121: FDISK_QNX43
> *  130: SUNIXOS
> *  131: FDISK_LINUXNAT
> *  134: FDISK_NTFSVOL1
> *  135: FDISK_NTFSVOL2
> *  165: FDISK_BSD
> *  167: FDISK_NEXTSTEP
> *  183: FDISK_BSDIFS
> *  184: FDISK_BSDISWAP
> *  190: X86BOOT
> *  191: SUNIXOS2
> *  238: EFI_PMBR
> *  239: EFI_FS
> *
>
> * Id    Act  Bhead  Bsect  Bcyl    Ehead  Esect  Ecyl    Rsect      Numsect
>   131   0    1      1      0       254    63     1023    63         405512667 
>   7     0    255    63     1023    254    63     1023    614405925  352257255 
>   131   0    255    63     1023    254    63     1023    966663180  10104885  
>   191   128  254    63     1023    254    63     1023    405512730  205117920 
> jack at opensolaris:~$
>