[gentoo-alpha] fdisk on mini-installer iso

[gentoo-alpha] fdisk on mini-installer iso

[Magnus Lindholm]

Hi,

A few days ago I fired up my UP2000+ Alpha and booted a recent
gentoo-alpha installer iso.
"install-alpha-minimal-20240328T170423Z.iso". Things seemed to work
fine, but I was unable to partition my drive. fdisk complained about
missing BSD* partitions. I remember reading something back in the days
about broken fdisk on gentoo-alpha installer so I took my old
install-alpha.minimal.iso from 2011. With this old installer CD I was
able to partition the disk and then continue the installation with the
recent mini installer from 2024. Has anyone here recent experience
from booting a current mini-install iso?

Regards

Magnus Lindholm

Re: [gentoo-alpha] fdisk on mini-installer iso

[Matt Turner]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago I fired up my UP2000+ Alpha and booted a recent
> gentoo-alpha installer iso.
> "install-alpha-minimal-20240328T170423Z.iso". Things seemed to work
> fine, but I was unable to partition my drive. fdisk complained about
> missing BSD* partitions. I remember reading something back in the days
> about broken fdisk on gentoo-alpha installer so I took my old
> install-alpha.minimal.iso from 2011. With this old installer CD I was
> able to partition the disk and then continue the installation with the
> recent mini installer from 2024. Has anyone here recent experience
> from booting a current mini-install iso?
>
> Regards
>
> Magnus Lindholm

Yes, fdisk has been broken for many years. I believe it broke in v2.23.

See https://marc.info/?t=143891491000001&r=1&w=4

Use `parted` instead.

(parted) mktable bsd

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1025044.html for some instructions.

Re: [gentoo-alpha] fdisk on mini-installer iso

[APK]

Hi,

Had a similar problem about 2 years ago. This is an old problem. I did
the same work around that you used. 

APK

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 12:28:06AM +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A few days ago I fired up my UP2000+ Alpha and booted a recent
> gentoo-alpha installer iso.
> "install-alpha-minimal-20240328T170423Z.iso". Things seemed to work
> fine, but I was unable to partition my drive. fdisk complained about
> missing BSD* partitions. I remember reading something back in the days
> about broken fdisk on gentoo-alpha installer so I took my old
> install-alpha.minimal.iso from 2011. With this old installer CD I was
> able to partition the disk and then continue the installation with the
> recent mini installer from 2024. Has anyone here recent experience
> from booting a current mini-install iso?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Magnus Lindholm

Re: [gentoo-alpha] fdisk on mini-installer iso

[APK]

Thank you

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 06:54:59PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > A few days ago I fired up my UP2000+ Alpha and booted a recent
> > gentoo-alpha installer iso.
> > "install-alpha-minimal-20240328T170423Z.iso". Things seemed to work
> > fine, but I was unable to partition my drive. fdisk complained about
> > missing BSD* partitions. I remember reading something back in the days
> > about broken fdisk on gentoo-alpha installer so I took my old
> > install-alpha.minimal.iso from 2011. With this old installer CD I was
> > able to partition the disk and then continue the installation with the
> > recent mini installer from 2024. Has anyone here recent experience
> > from booting a current mini-install iso?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Magnus Lindholm
> 
> Yes, fdisk has been broken for many years. I believe it broke in v2.23.
> 
> See https://marc.info/?t=143891491000001&r=1&w=4
> 
> Use `parted` instead.
> 
> (parted) mktable bsd
> 
> See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1025044.html for some instructions.