[sle-beta] gmc install on aarch64

Tomaž Borštnar, Softergee tomaz.borstnar at softergee.si
Fri Jul 21 15:20:59 MDT 2017


OK, installed SP3 GMC with LVM (no encryption). Then I tried to
reinstall it with Encrypted LVM and I get error -3014 like encryption
was not set up properly and reason was perhaps wrong password. The same
as on LEAP 42.3.

This is on Lenovo X230 and x64 codebase.



Tomaž Borštnar, Softergee je 21. 07. 2017 ob 21:01 napisal:
> There must be something in SP3/Leap 42.3 regarding partitioning. I had
> Leap 42.3 installed with LVM, but without encryption. Later I wanted to
> reinstall the maachine with encrypted LVM and got the similar error
> (3000 something)  saying that I did not provide proper keys! Which is
> weird, because it was not encrypted in the first place. Finally I
> deleted all LVM stuff and created one simple partition without LVM,
> started install and then reinstall it with proper encrypted LVM and it
> worked! I will test with SP3 installer as well.
>
>
> Richard Brown je 20. 07. 2017 ob 14:12 napisal:
>> 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
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