[sle-beta] gmc install on aarch64

[Czanik, Péter]

OK, problem found. If I change anything in the partitioning proposal (no
/home or different filesystem), it silently changes the target from sda
(the HDD) to sdb (the USB stick with the installer).

Bye,

Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Looking at the installation messages (installing through serial console,
> so I can't switch) sdb1 seems to belong to the USB stick containing. "sdb1"
> seems to belong to the USB stick I use for installation. The problem did
> not come up with the Leap 42.3 installer, so I'll try to reproduce it again
> with the SLES 12 SP3 GMC installer.
>
> Bye,
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's a SoftIron Overdrive 1000 (http://softiron.com/products/
>> overdrive-1000/) which arrived with Leap 42.2. I just deleted partitions
>> to be able to do a fresh install, so can't tell you the content of the
>> partition right now. I'll let you know what is on that partition once the
>> next install is ready. I plan to install Leap 43.3 now, but the bug seems
>> to be shared between Leap and SLES...
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
>> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
>> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
>> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Richard Brown <rbrown at suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> What make/model/spec is your aarch64 machine?
>>> What was the existing OS on the HDD and what was it using /dev/sdb1 for?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 13:30 +0200, Czanik, Péter wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > When trying to install GMC on an Aarch64 machine, it fails when there
>>> is an existing OS on HDD. I had this problem both when I was trying to
>>> replace Leap with SLES and the other way around. The error message is
>>> below. Installation to an empty HDD works fine.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>    ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
>>>                                                              │  │
>>> >
>>>    │ Failure occurred during the following action:              │
>>>                                                          │  │
>>>                                                                 │
>>> Formatting partition /dev/sdb1 (156.00 MiB) with vfat      │
>>>                                                    │  │
>>>                                                           │
>>>                                             │
>>>                                      │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    │ VOLUME_FORMAT_FAILED                                       │
>>>                                                          │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    │                                                            │
>>>                                                          │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    │ System error code was: -3008                               │
>>>                                                          │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    │                                                            │
>>>                                                          │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    │ /sbin/mkdosfs '/dev/sdb1':                                 │
>>>                                                          │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    │ mkdosfs: unable to open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy │
>>>                                                          │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    │                                                            │
>>>                                                          │  │  i
>>>                                                                │ Continue
>>> despite the error?                                │
>>>                                            │  │
>>> >
>>>    │                                                            │
>>>                                                          │  │
>>> >
>>>    │                     [Continue] [Abort]                     │
>>>                                                          │  │ │
>>> >
>>>    └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>>>                                                              │  │
>>>
>>>
>>>                                              │  │
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
>>> > Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
>>> > https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
>>> > https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > sle-beta mailing list
>>> > sle-beta at lists.suse.com
>>> > http://lists.suse.com/mailman/listinfo/sle-beta
>>>
>>> --
>>> Richard Brown
>>> Technical Lead - openQA
>>> openSUSE Chairman
>>>
>>> Phone +4991174053-361
>>> SUSE Linux GmbH,  Maxfeldstr. 5,  D-90409 Nuernberg
>>> GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton,
>>> HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-beta/attachments/20170720/337ffe3c/attachment.htm>