[ILUG] Formatting error (-1012) when installing Opensuse 10.2

[Frank Duignan]

Perhaps DELL (as usual) have created 4 primary partitions (with some hidden)
on your disk preventing you from adding new ones.  If someone relevant in
Dell is reading this please be aware there are such things as Extended
Partitions!
Also....
Does you bios have a virus protect option that stops you writing to the
master boot record?

On 30/07/07, Philip Bradley <philb at vodafone.ie> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install Opesuse 10.2 on a Dell D620 with an 80GB SATA  drive
> (with 2GB RAM). The installation fails at the point where Yast tries to
> format the disk space allocated to it. The following error is reported:
>
>
> Failure occurred during the following action:
> Setting type of partition /dev/sda6 to 83
>
> System error code was: -1012
>
>
> My progress has been as follows:
>
> Attempt 1:
> Standard network install using mini ISO. I accepted the default
> partitioning
> scheme. Yast happily created a 2GB swap partition, a 10GB home partition
> and
> a 7.7 GB root partition. Having accepted this scheme, it fails with the
> above
> error.
>
> Attempt 2:
> Just in case there's something fishy about having a 2GB swap partition, I
> planned to resize this to 1GB. On retrying, Yast couldn't understand the
> partition table and refused to make any changes. Luckily windows could
> still
> boot and put things back to the original state.
>
> Attempt 3:
> Go into expert mode and manually create a 1GB swap partition and a 19GB
> root
> partition (no separate home partition this time). Same failure occurs
>
> Attempt 4:
> Use windows to create the required partitions (1GB and 19GB) and tell Yast
> to
> use these partition rather than create it's own. Same failure occurs.
>
>
> A bit of Googl'ing suggests that error 1012 means that the partition table
> cannot be written to (but I could be wrong).
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot or work around
> this? I can't find any mention of it on the Suse support db or mailing
> lists
> that sound relevant.
>
> Thanks,
> -Phil
>
>
>
>
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