Comment 15 for bug 57860

Kibbled_bits wrote:
>
> Okay this fails too. The installer forces your to format the HDD even onces
> it's partitioned properly. At 5% (Creating ext3 file system for / in
> partition #1 of LVW VG..."
>
> Then it asks me "Do you want to resume partitioning? If I click Continue or
> Go Back nothing happens.
> This happens even if I try to manually format it using mkfs.ext3

Could you be more specific? How do you have it partitioned? Please
show the output of fdisk -l on the raid device, as well as the mkfs.ext3
command line you used. That should definitely work properly.

I believe the installer should work fine if only used to format the
partition, not change the partition table, but if you can not manually
format the partition either, that would indicate a more serious
underlying problem.

Also you did not forget to run dmraid again after changing the partition
table did you? If you change the partition table, the effect does not
happen until you run dmraid again, and so you can not try to access
partitions until that time.