Error installing: Installation failed! unable to partition harddisk /dev/sda

[mfg]

Motherboard / CPU:
- Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V
- Intel® Celeron® Quad-Core J1900 SoC
- One 500 GB Sata Drive
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#sp


Tried to install it from usb dvd-rom and usb stick but:

1. usb stick - i can select both the stick and the hdd in the second install screen but then it errors out and the usb drive isn't bootable anymore - i suspect it writes to usb stick instead of hdd
2. usb dvd - errors with the same message error - unable to partition harddisk /dev/sda

I tried
- dd-ing the first 100 mb of the drive with /dev/zero
- creating a GPT partition table with ubuntu live cd
- creating a MBR partition table with ubuntu live cd
- using different sata ports / cables

I did a few old-school screenshots of the monitor and put them in a imgurl album at http://imgur.com/a/wZzDn#gBbdrWc

I tried with 3.3 and 3.2 with same results.

Any ideas on what to try next?

 

[mir]

It seems to me that the SATA chip is unsupported by the RHEL 6.6 kernel.

 

[mfg]

... but it sees the drive when installing... I will try installing on another system, see if that works...

 

[mir]

Then the problem might be that the USB stick is mounted as /dev/sda.

 

[mfg]

I've added a PCI card with another 2 sata drives (so two on sata ports on motherboard, two on additional pci card) but it won't allow me to install on any drive. All 4 are detected corectly (size and serial appear ok). Tried leaving one drive in each port but still no go. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here?

1. dowload iso
2. write iso do cd with check disk option
3. write iso to usb stick with the app from the wiki
4. boot with either one and try installing... same thing happens

 

[mfg]

Same issue on dn2800mt and dc2500cc motherboards.

 

[silvestrefigueroa]

Same issue on dn2800mt and dc2500cc motherboards.

Mother of God !

I have the same problem installing PVE 3.3 on mi HP Porliant DL380 g8 using P420i and installing from USB Stick.

Any idea to solve this?

 

[mfg]

Sadly, didn't find any solutions yet...

 

[silvestrefigueroa]

Sadly, didn't find any solutions yet...

I solved the problem.
I was trying to install PVE 3.3 on 1+0 RAID based on 6 SAS disks @ 900GB
The total available storage in this schema is 2,7T
When I try to install PVE on a 0 RAID with just two of those disks the installations goes well. The available disk space at this schema is less than 2,0T, is 1,7 T.
I think that when people says "The problem related with 2T storage was solved since PVE 3,2" the people must test the casuist... just for assert the words said