setup-storage 1.0.4 - ERROR (line 11): Invalid file: Wasexpecting /\Z/ but found

[Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jean Spirat [mailto:jeanspirat at squirk.org] 
> Envoyé : 29 avril 2009 09:41
> À : Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
> Cc : Michael Tautschnig; linux-fai
> Objet : Re: setup-storage 1.0.4 - ERROR (line 11): Invalid 
> file: Wasexpecting /\Z/ but found
> 
> 
> > Executing: mdadm --detail --scan --verbose -c partitions 
> Lower bound 
> > of partition size is greater than disk size Error in task 
> partition. 
> > Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task 
> > task_action task main
> >
> > Usually n order to solve this I need to manually invoke a 
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" to remove any 
> traces of a partition table then restart the install once 
> more but this does not work on my Dell PE1950 ??
> >
> > Any fix for this one perhaps ?
> >
> > Help again greatly appreciated!
> >
> > - vin
> >
> >   
> i had this issue once because i was allocating more storage 
> than my disk has space for. Are you sure you are not 
> overbooking the disk's capacity ? If a dd let you go over 
> this issue this should not be the case just giving experience 
> return for the same error message i had..
> 
> try to put
> 
> vg00-root  /                       5-         xfs       defaults
> 
> 
> and see if it helps...

You where soo right... Thnx... 

I was trying to assign 72304 x 1024 = 74039296 
disk_config disk1 bootable:1
primary         /boot   256     ext3    defaults
primary         -       2048    swap    rw
primary         -       70000-  -       -

while I the disk as:
[root at urpbe1 /root]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 72.7 GB, 72746008576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8844 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Thnx a lot!

- vin