Installation problem with partiton structure

RyeCatcher · 2007-12-25 10:54:05

Hi.

I'm trying to set up Archlinux on an Asus V6J with 1G RAM from the Arch Linux 2007.08 ("Don't Panic") CD.
This is my existing partition setup.

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 6440MB 6440MB primary ntfs
2 6440MB 14.0GB 7518MB primary ext3
3 14.0GB 23.6GB 9656MB primary ext3 boot
4 23.6GB 80.0GB 56.4GB extended
11 23.6GB 25.8GB 2155MB logical linux-swap
5 25.8GB 36.5GB 10.7GB logical ntfs
6 36.5GB 47.2GB 10.7GB logical ntfs
7 47.2GB 58.0GB 10.7GB logical ntfs
8 58.0GB 63.3GB 5371MB logical ntfs
9 63.3GB 68.7GB 5363MB logical ntfs
10 68.7GB 80.0GB 11.3GB logical ntfs

I have a WinXP installation in 1 and Ubuntu 7.06 in 3.
While trying to install Arch in 3, i'm encountering the following error with the partition tool (cfdisk):
FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 11: enlarged logical partition overlap

I could find a similar topic but that does not say how the problems are to be dealt with.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=273748
Running the parted command check as was done in the mentioned topic yields similar results.
as the "check 2" commands reports Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.

Do i need to make changes to the partition structure?

Thanks
Abhik

RyeCatcher · 2007-12-25 10:55:46

Here's a log of a TestDisk session i ran after encountering the error...............hope it helps.

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Tue Dec 25 15:23:12 2007
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.8, Data Recovery Utility, August 2007
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Linux version (ext2fs lib: 1.39, ntfs lib: 9:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20070512)
Failed to set locale, using default 'C'.
disk_get_geometry BLKGETSIZE64 /dev/hda number of cylinders 16383 != 9729 (calculated)
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63, sector size=512
Disk /dev/hdb - 37 MB / 36 MiB - CHS 2 255 63 (RO), sector size=2048

Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
NTFS at 0/1/1
NTFS at 3133/1/1
NTFS at 4438/1/1
NTFS at 5743/1/1
NTFS at 7048/1/1
NTFS at 7701/1/1
NTFS at 8353/1/1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr=30
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=8 nbr=8
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=16 nbr=4
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=32 nbr=2
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=64 nbr=1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=128 nbr=1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=240 nbr=1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr=30
Current partition structure:
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 782 254 63 12578832
2 P Linux 783 0 1 1696 254 63 14683410
3 * Linux 1697 0 1 2870 254 63 18860310
4 E extended 2871 0 1 9728 254 63 110173770
5 L HPFS - NTFS 3133 1 1 4437 254 63 20964762
X extended 4438 0 1 5742 254 63 20964825
6 L HPFS - NTFS 4438 1 1 5742 254 63 20964762
X extended 5743 0 1 7047 254 63 20964825
7 L HPFS - NTFS 5743 1 1 7047 254 63 20964762
X extended 7048 0 1 7700 254 63 10490445
8 L HPFS - NTFS 7048 1 1 7700 254 63 10490382
X extended 7701 0 1 8352 254 63 10474380
9 L HPFS - NTFS 7701 1 1 8352 254 63 10474317
X extended 8353 0 1 9728 254 63 22105440
10 L HPFS - NTFS 8353 1 1 9728 254 63 22105377
X extended 2871 0 2 3132 254 63 4209029
11 L Linux Swap 2871 2 1 3132 254 63 4208904
Ask the user for vista mode
Computes LBA from CHS for Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9730 255 63
Allow partial last cylinder : Yes
search_vista_part: 1

search_part()
Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9730 255 63
NTFS at 0/1/1
filesystem size 12578832
sectors_per_cluster 1
mft_lcn 2507434
mftmirr_lcn 7832114
clusters_per_mft_record 2
clusters_per_index_record 8
D HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 782 254 63 12578832
NTFS, 6440 MB / 6142 MiB

recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=0/56, s_mnt_count=4/33, s_blocks_per_group=32768
recover_EXT2: boot_sector=0, s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 1835008
recover_EXT2: part_size 14680064
D Linux 783 0 1 1696 201 56 14680064
EXT3 Large file Sparse superblock, 7516 MB / 7168 MiB

recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=0/71, s_mnt_count=3/30, s_blocks_per_group=32768
recover_EXT2: boot_sector=0, s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 2357538
recover_EXT2: part_size 18860304
D Linux 1697 0 1 2870 254 57 18860304
EXT3 Large file Sparse superblock Recover, 9656 MB / 9209 MiB
D Linux Swap 2871 2 1 3132 254 31 4208872
SWAP2 version 1, 2154 MB / 2055 MiB
NTFS at 3133/1/1
filesystem size 20964762
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 4
mftmirr_lcn 1310297
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
D HPFS - NTFS 3133 1 1 4437 254 63 20964762
NTFS, 10733 MB / 10236 MiB
NTFS at 4438/1/1
filesystem size 20964762
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 4
mftmirr_lcn 1310297
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
D HPFS - NTFS 4438 1 1 5742 254 63 20964762
NTFS, 10733 MB / 10236 MiB
NTFS at 5743/1/1
filesystem size 20964762
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 4
mftmirr_lcn 1310297
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
D HPFS - NTFS 5743 1 1 7047 254 63 20964762
NTFS, 10733 MB / 10236 MiB
NTFS at 7048/1/1
filesystem size 10490382
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 4
mftmirr_lcn 655648
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
D HPFS - NTFS 7048 1 1 7700 254 63 10490382
NTFS, 5371 MB / 5122 MiB
NTFS at 7701/1/1
filesystem size 10474317
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 4
mftmirr_lcn 654644
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
D HPFS - NTFS 7701 1 1 8352 254 63 10474317
NTFS, 5362 MB / 5114 MiB
NTFS at 8353/1/1
filesystem size 22105377
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 4
mftmirr_lcn 1381586
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
D HPFS - NTFS 8353 1 1 9728 254 63 22105377
NTFS, 11 GB / 10 GiB
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr=17
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=8 nbr=4
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=16 nbr=3
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=32 nbr=2
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=64 nbr=1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=128 nbr=1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=240 nbr=1
get_geometry_from_list_part_aux head=255 nbr=17

Results
* HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 782 254 63 12578832
NTFS, 6440 MB / 6142 MiB
P Linux 783 0 1 1696 254 63 14683410
EXT3 Large file Sparse superblock, 7517 MB / 7169 MiB
P Linux 1697 0 1 2870 254 63 18860310
EXT3 Large file Sparse superblock Recover, 9656 MB / 9209 MiB
L Linux Swap 2871 2 1 3132 254 63 4208904
SWAP2 version 1, 2154 MB / 2055 MiB
L HPFS - NTFS 3133 1 1 4437 254 63 20964762
NTFS, 10733 MB / 10236 MiB
L HPFS - NTFS 4438 1 1 5742 254 63 20964762
NTFS, 10733 MB / 10236 MiB
L HPFS - NTFS 5743 1 1 7047 254 63 20964762
NTFS, 10733 MB / 10236 MiB
L HPFS - NTFS 7048 1 1 7700 254 63 10490382
NTFS, 5371 MB / 5122 MiB
L HPFS - NTFS 7701 1 1 8352 254 63 10474317
NTFS, 5362 MB / 5114 MiB
L HPFS - NTFS 8353 1 1 9728 254 63 22105377
NTFS, 11 GB / 10 GiB

interface_write()
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 782 254 63 12578832
2 P Linux 783 0 1 1696 254 63 14683410
3 P Linux 1697 0 1 2870 254 63 18860310
4 E extended LBA 2871 0 1 9729 254 63 110189835
5 L Linux Swap 2871 2 1 3132 254 63 4208904
6 L HPFS - NTFS 3133 1 1 4437 254 63 20964762
7 L HPFS - NTFS 4438 1 1 5742 254 63 20964762
8 L HPFS - NTFS 5743 1 1 7047 254 63 20964762
9 L HPFS - NTFS 7048 1 1 7700 254 63 10490382
10 L HPFS - NTFS 7701 1 1 8352 254 63 10474317
11 L HPFS - NTFS 8353 1 1 9728 254 63 22105377
simulate write!

write_mbr_i386: starting...
write_all_log_i386: starting...
write_all_log_i386: CHS: 2871/0/1,lba=46122615
write_all_log_i386: CHS: 3133/0/1,lba=50331645
write_all_log_i386: CHS: 4438/0/1,lba=71296470
write_all_log_i386: CHS: 5743/0/1,lba=92261295
write_all_log_i386: CHS: 7048/0/1,lba=113226120
write_all_log_i386: CHS: 7701/0/1,lba=123716565
write_all_log_i386: CHS: 8353/0/1,lba=134190945

TestDisk exited normally.

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byte · 2007-12-25 16:04:44

Your XP is in the very first partition and works? Then get rid of all other partitions and think of a sane setup, 1 gig for swap, 10 for / and the rest for /home or so.

RyeCatcher · 2007-12-25 16:41:36

Thanks for your suggestion but i'm afraid i really don't understand why you'd suggest me to do that.
My existing XP and Ubuntu installations work very well and i do not see any reason to mess with them. I want to install Arch in the 2nd partition. That's all.
What do you mean by a sane setup? Please explain.
All i have is 4 primary partitions and a few logical ones, this is a perfectly reasonable setup. I fail to see what this particular partition structure has to do with the installation issues.
And, 2G of swap had been allocated as every Linux installation instruction manual advises to set swap size to twice the physical RAM.

Thanks

Arch Linux

#1 2007-12-25 10:54:05

Installation problem with partiton structure

#2 2007-12-25 10:55:46

Re: Installation problem with partiton structure

#3 2007-12-25 16:04:44

Re: Installation problem with partiton structure

#4 2007-12-25 16:41:36

Re: Installation problem with partiton structure

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