Comment 48 for bug 1065281

I've had a chance to revisit this today.

Part of the problem seems to be related to how the installer is seeing the 4k/4k disk.

The 4k/4k sector disk is 1TB in size, however, the partitioner only sees the disk as 125GB. The installer will partition this space and the installation will continue, but, we end up with an un-bootable machine. dmesg and syslog, however, see the full 1TB of space for the disk.

If I run a df -h at the console during install time, we also see the correct sizes for the partitions (at least they seem to be):

/dev/sdb1 761.7M 32.0K 761.7M 0% /target/boot/efi
/dev/sdb2 73.2G 658.6M 68.8G 1% /target
/dev/sdb4 807.9G 72.2M 766.8G 0% /target/home

Also running parted in rescue mode, here's what we end up with:

Model: SEAGATE ST91000640SS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End SIze File System Name Flags
1 1049KB 800MB 799MB boot
2 800MB 80.8GB 80.0GB
3 80.8GB 119GB 38.0GB
4 119GB 1000GB 881GB