Comment 16 for bug 1864787

Two installs today on box; following mostly copied/pasted from iso.qa.ubu.com

** try 1 (NO ISSUES AT ALL)
dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e6850, 5gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550)
testcase: BIOS, no encryption, internet, manual partitioning, seperate home (sda8), / in sda9

after selecting SDA9 for / and ensuring FORMAT checkbox is ticked, on OK, if I re-enter to confirm value it reports no-format. this is unexpected, and I wanted to 'format' to ensure nothing remains.., I won't force it this time (in past have switched it to reiserfs then back to ext4)

** try 2
dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e6850, 5gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550)
testcase: BIOS, no encryption, internet, manual partitioning, seperate home (sda8), / in sda9

repeat BUT this time I will FORCE format of / partition, via change to reiserfs then back to ext4
sda8 re-used as /home, format sda9 as /

installation failed; command: sfdisk --force --apend /dev/sda

Could it be my play required to 'force' the FORMAT flag to be set is causing the issue? or at the very least this is possible clue as to where bug is?

I'll now just reboot 'live' system (kde partition manager won't make changes to disk after this error for some reason!??) then manually format sda9 as I want (ext4) and then select it (manual partitioning) and install; which historically works