issue with live cd - [sr0]

I have the same errors on RHEL4 u5, IBM Blade server HS21 but I can work with Gparted. I haven't tested if I can resize the partitions yet.

This happened if I booted GParted from the remote CDROM. If booted from the local CDROM all was without errors.
Regards

I tested 0.5.2-10. I downloaded it, verified the md5, and put it on a USB stick.

I have good news and bad news.

Good news: the errors I reported with the previous version 0.5.2-9 at startup and reboot disappeared. Great.

Bad news: I did a quick test of creating a partition and it failed three times in a row (so it is repeatable).
I saved the details. They are pasted below.

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GParted 0.5.2

Libparted 2.2
Create Logical Partition #1 (ext3, 4.53 GiB) on /dev/sdb  00:00:01    ( ERROR )
        
create empty partition  00:00:01    ( SUCCESS )
        
path: /dev/sdb12
start: 916958133
end: 926452484
size: 9494352 (4.53 GiB)
set partition type on /dev/sdb12  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
        
new partition type: ext3
create new ext3 file system  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
        
mkfs.ext3 -L "junk" /dev/sdb12
        
mkfs.ext3: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version `BLKID_2.17' not found (required by mkfs.ext3)

I tested 2-11 on a usb pen drive. The problem I reported yesterday of not being able to format an ext3 partition was solved. So I managed to successfully create, relabel and delete a partition.

Yesterday I only tested 2-10 on usb. Today after the success of the test above, I decided to burn a CD and do the same test.

Tests on CD

2-11 is far worse than 2-9 with respect to the errors I reported, but the errors happen before the keymap question. In general 2-11 is very slow when booting. Nevertheless after it boots GParted works well, just as 2-9.

I have measured the time it takes from when boot starts until the graphical desktop appears:
0.5.2-11: 5 minutes 30 seconds
0.5.2-9:   2 minutes 10 seconds
0.4.5-3:   1 minute   15 seconds.

0.4.5-3 has always been reliable on my PC and is fast.

Conclusion: 0.5.2-11 seems fine for USB but I would not recommend it for a CD.

(I did only a simple test of creating and deleting a partition so obviously much more testing would be needed to really say 2-11 works well).

Hi Steven,

My home PC where I did the tests above is a Dell Dimension 3000. It is old but still usable, it has a 3GHz Pentium 4 and 2 Gbytes RAM.

At work just about everything is Dell. I tested two CDs on two PCs. The results are below.

Dell Optiplex GX520

0.5.2-11: 3 minutes 40 seconds
0.5.2-9:   2 minutes 10 seconds
0.4.5-3:   not tested

Dell Optiplex 745

0.5.2-11: 2 minutes 15 seconds
0.5.2-9:   Could not complete the test because the screen blanked out before the choice of keymap. This happened three times.
0.4.5-3:   not tested

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And I am not the only one having this type of error as can be seen here:
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=14145

The error message in that thread is that same as one of the messages I get.

Hi  Piscium,
I believe this is really a kernel/hardware support issue (Especially it's on some specific hardware), or the compatibility of CD and CD drive.
Here I just did a test with a CD, GParted live 0.5.2-11, on Acer Veriton M670. It boots into X about 62 secs then I can start to use GParted.
Maybe the next kernel update it will be better.

Steven.

No problem.
Yes, it's better to use USB flash drive if you can. It's faster, more flexible, easier to carry...

Steven.

You need to set the USB port in priority in the boot sequence section of the BIOS setup. Of course, thiw is valid with motherboards of the late 10 years or so.