Oracle Linux Installation - Custom Partitioning - GPT Partitioning

we have successfully installed Oracle Linux 5.5 on IBM - System X3650 M3 machine and later scrapped this Linux OS and Installed Windows 2008 OS for other demo purpose.
Now again we are trying to install the Oracle Linux on this machine we are encountering the below issue...
Oracle Linux 5.5 installation on IBM - System X3650 M3
Encountering below error message while creating the custom partitioning creation
Partitioning Error
The following critical errors exit with your requested partitoning scheme.
Your boot partition is a disk using the GPT paritioning scheme but this machine cannot boot using GPT.
These errors must be corrected prior to continuing with your install of enterprise linux.
Please help.
Edited by: user13681259 on Jun 18, 2012 1:07 AM

Thanks, we managed to clear GPT partition and continued the installation processs...
we have successfully installed Oracle Linux 5.5 on IBM - System X3650 M3 machine and later scrapped the Linux OS and Installed Windows 2008 OS for other demo purpose.
Now again we are trying to install the Oracle Linux on this machine and the machine is NOT detecting the network devices and the network configuration screen does not appear during the installations to assign the staticIP and the hostname to the machine.
Now, the Network Devices screen is NOT displaying during the installtion (where we have to enter the IP Address and hostname details)- the Network Devices Screen should come after the partition layout and GRUB boot loader screen.
The network cable is attached with this machine already.
# lspci | grep -i net
0b : 00.0 Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
0b : 00.1 Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
#ifconfig
lo
Link encap:local Loopback
inet addr 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
usb0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E6.lF:l3:A8:AF:3F
inet addr:169.254.95.120 Bcast:169.254.95.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
#ifconfig -a
lo
sit0
usb0
Any help would be appreciated.
Edited by: user13681259 on Jun 19, 2012 1:02 AM
Edited by: user13681259 on Jun 19, 2012 1:16 AM

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I have reinstalled OS X again just to make sure everything is clean, especially the boot partition.
During the installation I mounted the partitions like so (sda4 = boot, sda5 = root, sda6=swap, sda7=home)
# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/boot
# mkdir /mnt/home
# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/home
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
After installing base and base-devel and modifying the system I did the following:
# pacman -S grub-efi-x86_64
# modprobe dm-mod
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck --debug
# cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
NB! I executed these commands with /dev/sda1 still mounted on /boot/efi in the chrooted environment. This put the arch_grub bootloader-id under /boot/efi/EFI on /dev/sda1. I made sure to remove the old /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub before I executed this command. This way is a little bit different from the Wiki but as I said before, /dev/sda1 was already mounted on /mnt/boot/efi when I followed these instructions.
Without installing the os-prober (I don't want to have OS X in grub) I then executed
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exited, unmounted and rebooted. After the reinstall, suddenly the computer does not load grub? Instead I just end up booting into OS X.
Does anyone have any clue on what to do here? I have tried to reinstall a couple of times without success.
Last edited by archolith (2013-06-30 07:22:10)

Hi,
I have found a solution to the problem. When you are booting from the cd if you look carefully you will see that the system is missing firmware for module aic94xx and bfa. This error message also pops up when you are creating the initial ram disk environment with:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
To make it work I did as followed:
1. I have rEFInd installed
2. I booted from the disk and mounted /dev/sda1 somewhere and made sure to remove the old ../EFI/arch_grub that was lying there
3. I continued with a normal install making sure NOT to mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/boot/efi before generating the fstab
4. I chrooted into /mnt and followed the instructions up to setting up the network (in my case # systemctl enable [email protected])
5. Before I created the initial ram disk environment I installed aic94xx and bfa from the AUR as root (maybe not 100% correct)
5.a https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aic94xx-firmware/
5.b https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bfa-firmware/
6. I then ran the code # mkinitcpio -p linux, this time without the error messages I had gotten before
7. I set the root password and continued with these instructions:
7.a https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ma … Bootloader
8. When I installed grub the system said that it could not find a boot manager but I continued with the instructions
When I rebooted the computer everything went fine, I booted into rEFInd followed by grub. Can anyone with the same problem please follow these instructions and report back. It is good to see anyone else succeed before I report this thread as SOLVED. If you have any questions I will try to help.

Cannot install clean Windows 7 64-bit to GPT partition

ASUS Maximus VII Formula
HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS, SATA 3 (6 Gb/s), 7200 RPM, 64 MB
Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC)
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit SP1
SW_DVD5_Win_Pro_7w_SP1_64BIT_English_-2_MLF_X17-59279.ISO
Procedure
On a Windows 7 Pro 32-bit BIOS laptop, I used Disk Management snapin to initialize the virgin 4TB disc to GPT. In Properties, it said it was a GPT disc. I then created a 1.0 TB partition with Quick Format unchecked (equivalent to DISKPART > clean)
so it would check for bad sectors.
I placed the 4TB disc into the ASUS Maximus VII Formula computer.
I made sure the UEFI BIOS was set to only use UEFI mode.
I booted into the Window 7 Pro 64-bit SP1 dvd.
During boot, ASUS screen said it was in UEFI mode.
Windows installer loaded properly.
On the Windows screen for selecting which partition to install the OS to, I selected the 1.0 TB partition. The following error occurred:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."
Since the ASUS boot screen said I was in UEFI mode, why does it not let me install Windows to my 1 TB GPT partition?
I then deleted the 1.0 TB partition.
The partition was deleted leaving unallocated space.
I used NEW link to create a partition.
NEW did not work, it just left the unallocated space and did not create a partition.
Since the ASUS boot screen said I was in UEFI mode, why does it not create a GPT partition?
From the ASUS driver downloads page, I also tried loading the
"Intel_RAID_Win7-8-8-1_V13101058" 64-bit drivers during the installation process with no success.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
How about your problem now? Based on my knowledge, Windows 7 X64 system is support GPT disk, but Windows 7 X32 system not. According to your description, your disk should be already GPT, this problem probably caused by Windows installation disk problem or
motherboard UEFI boot settings mistake.
Therefore, please check these two points for test. If problem persists, in my opinion, it would be better to contact ASUS suppoort for further assistance with this problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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