Partition manager crash while installing 10.04

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DFishburn

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Aug 3, 2011, 7:57:07 AM8/3/11
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I have two ATVs which I am attempting to setup at the same time.

I am also using the same software, but each have different USB keys
for the booting process to be used after I am finished. They both use
the same Mythbuntu 10.04 LTS USB key though.

Anyway, as I move through the install screens (which seem unbelievably
slow compared to the other ATV, BTW) I eventually get to the point
where I setup the manual partitions. As I move through this part of
the install (which is glacially slow) parted eventually crashes and I
submit an apport log.

I was hoping someone could eyeball what I have here and see if they
can find what might be wrong. I am figuring it has to do with my
setup of the partitions on /dev/sda.

So, I have reduced the Media partition on the ATV (40 GB) to 18 MB and
am creating a 20 MB ext3 partition to be used my Mythbuntu on the ATV
disk directly.

If I am missing output that would be useful, please let me know.

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# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 34835+ ee EFI GPT
/dev/sda2 * 5 56 409600 af Unknown
/dev/sda3 56 171 921600 af Unknown
/dev/sda4 171 2247 16675714 af Unknown

Disk /dev/sdb: 500 MB, 500563968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1 19+ ee EFI GPT
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 2)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 40)
/dev/sdb2 1 4 24394+ af Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 41)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(3, 10, 4)
/dev/sdb3 * 4 61 464401 83 Linux
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(3, 10, 5)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(60, 217, 60)

Disk /dev/sdc: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 487 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 487 3911796 6 FAT16

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# parted -s /dev/sda unit s print
Model: ATA FUJITSU MHW2040A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 78140160s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system
Name Flags
1 40s 69671s 69632s fat32 EFI System
Partition boot
2 69672s 888871s 819200s hfs+
Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 atvrecv
3 888872s 2732071s 1843200s hfs+
Apple_HFS_Untitled_2
4 2732072s 36083499s 33351428s hfs+ primary
5 36083500s 77091549s 41008050s ext3 primary
6 77091550s 78140126s 1048577s primary


# My boot USB key
# parted -s /dev/sdb unit s print
Model: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 977664s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 40s 48828s 48789s hfs+ primary atvrecv
2 48829s 977630s 928802s ext3 primary


# Mythbuntu 10.04 LTS
# parted -s /dev/sdc unit s print
Model: Lexar USB Flash Drive (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 7831552s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 63s 7823654s 7823592s primary fat16 boot

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kexec --load tmp/casper/vmlinuz --initrd=tmp/casper/initrd.lz --
command-line="file=/preseed/mythbuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/
initrd.lz nosplash vesa video=vesafb"

OR

kexec --load tmp/casper/vmlinuz --initrd=tmp/casper/initrd.lz --
command-line="file=/preseed/mythbuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/
initrd.lz nosplash"


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When I reach the install when I setup the manual partitions, this is
the chart I am presented with.


/dev/sda Type Size Used
free space 0 MB 0 MB
sda1 efi 35 MB 35 MB
sda2 hfs+ 419 MB 218 MB
sda3 hfs+ 943 MB 484 MB
sda4 hfs+ 17075 MB 25 MB
sda5 ext3 20996 MB 510 MB
sda6 536 MB unknown

/dev/sdc Type Size Used
free space 0 MB 0 MB
sdc1 hfs+ 24 MB 12 MB
sdc2 ext3 475 MB 222 MB


Some of these numbers look strange to me. For /dev/sda4 why would any
be used, when I shrunk it?
For /dev/sda5, when I setup the ext3 partition, which I thought would
clear this out.

mkfs.hfsplus -J -v Media /dev/sda4
mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -L Linux /dev/sda5


Anyway, does anyone see anything wrong with the above?

If so, could you also give me some instructions on how to fix it.
Certainly my Linux skills are not high. Takes me ions to figure out
command lines.

Thanks,
Dave
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