[sle-beta] gmc install on aarch64

[Richard Brown]

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>
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