[SOLVED] duplicate partitions listed during setup on macbook pro 8,2

Question

I'm trying to install Arch on a 8,2 Macbook Pro.
I gave myself 40gb of space so far.
Here's the partition map:
sda1-3 are for the gpt, osx partition and osx recovery partition.
sda5 boot logical linux 200mb /boot
sda6 logical linux swap 2048mb swap
sda7 logical linux 7168mb /root
sda8 logical linux 30886mb /home
after I set this up in cfdisk and write it, then select the sources, editor & clock.
When I select option 4 "prepare hard drives" is where the problem is.
I select option 3 to Manually Configure Block Devices.
When I look in the Manage filesystems window I see duplicate partitions.
/dev/sda1 raw -200MiB
/dev/sda1 raw -200MiB
/dev/sda2 raw -676115MiB
/dev/sda2 raw -676115MiB
... this continues to
/dev/sdb1 raw -200MiB
/dev/sdb1 raw -200MiB
/dev/sdb2 raw -41409MiB
/dev/sdb2 raw -41409MiB
/dev/sdb3 raw -542994MiB
/dev/sdb3 raw -542994MiB
/dev/mapper/arch_lib-modules raw -99MiB
/dev/mapper/arch_root-image raw -671MiB
/dev/mapper/arch_usr-share raw -413MiB
I can't select the partitions to setup the filesystems & would appreciate some help/direction.
Thanks.
Last edited by raritan01 (2012-05-23 18:05:36)

Answer 1

Well, after a search and a few trials, I was able to get the installer to recognize the additional partitions.
Without this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141695 I would have been completely lost.
After I setup the partitions, I dropped down to terminal.
I had to go to the tmp director and create the directory aif and a file in the aif directory called aif-blockdata
Here's what my edit looked like:
/dev/sda5 raw no_label ext2;yes;/boot;target;no_opts;no_label;no_params
/dev/sda6 raw no_label swap;yes;no_mountpoint;target;no_opts;no_label;no_params
/dev/sda7 raw no_label ext4;yes;/;target;no_opts;no_label;no_params
/dev/sda8 raw no_label ext4;yes;/home;target;no_opts;no_label;no_params
After that setup and going through and selecting the partitions correctly & what would go there (/boot, swap, /root, /home) I got another error;
Filesystem/blockdevice processor problem
Warning: Could not create all needed filesystems. Either the underlying blockdevices didn't appear in 10 iterations, or process_filesystem failed
Has anyone else had this problem?
Last edited by raritan01 (2012-05-19 06:46:05)