Comment 14 for bug 1415918

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2015-02-15 09:23 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #39)
> Seems like a bug -- the installer *should* be wiping the partitions it needs
> to deal with, provided they are marked to be wiped.
>
> As mentioned in a previous comment, could you get the output of the command
> 'sudo parted -l' from the installation when it shows the bootloader dialog?
> You will need to switch to another VT to do this. Seeing all the partitions
> for all disks maybe we can find what the stale data is. The information is
> already in the partman log, but quite a lot harder to decipher than looking
> at parted output.

I tried to get "'sudo parted -l" output, when i was hit with issue, by dropping into shell from installer menu:

~ # sudo parted -l
/bin/sh: sudo: not found

~ # parted -l
/bin/sh: parted: not found

Tried df command:

df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 518336 4032 514304 1% /run
devtmpfs 2544960 0 2544960 0% /dev
/dev/sda2 31483800 1134112 28727316 4% /target
/dev/sda2 31483800 1134112 28727316 4% /dev/.static/dev
devtmpfs 2544960 0 2544960 0% /target/dev

parted_devices
/dev/sda 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdb 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdc 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdd 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sde 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdf 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdg 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdh 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdi 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV
/dev/sdj 34359738368 IBM 2810XIV

And for installation i selected "dev/sda" disk.