Re: [Xen-users] XCP install from ISO not starting

[Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:20, Matthew Law <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, April 22, 2010 4:41 am, Kurt Buff wrote:
>> During the install process, as soon as I press enter to accept the
>> eula I am getting the following error message with 0.1.1 (#25823p):
>>
>> Â Â Â Â ÂAn unrecoverable error has occurred. The error was:
>>
>> Â Â Â Â Â Could not decode partition line: '/dev/sda5 : start =
>> 16777279, size=125301581'
>>
>> The machine in question is a Dell 1950 with dual core dual procs and
>> 8gb RAM and 2 Broadcom NICs and two 67gb drives in a RAID1 array.
>>
>> I've also checked the md5 of the iso and burned two different CDs, and
>> successfully installed FreeBSD 8.0 on this box.
>>
>> Any hints for me?
>>
>> Kurt
>
> My guess would be that you have a BSD labelled disk and it doesn't like it.
>
> Boot it with knoppix or similar and get shut of the BSD disk
> labelling/partition information and try again.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Matt.

That was exactly it. Interesting that XCP doesn't remove partitions
during install.

Thanks,

Kurt

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