install/46298: SWAP space pushing past disk geometry during system installation

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>Number:         46298
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       SWAP space pushing past disk geometry during system 
>installation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 05 14:25:00 +0000 2012
>Originator:     James Carter
>Release:        6.0 Beta
>Organization:
End User
>Environment:
Virtual machine first time installation of 6.0 Beta
>Description:
So far no joy with the i386 iso on MacOSX version of Virtualbox. I had issues 
with the partitions pushing past the disk geometry. I ran through it several 
times. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a virtual with a dynamic VDI disk, I made mine 10GB. Accept the default 
(reasonable) geometry, use the entire disk, modify the partitions to include 
ONLY a root with autofill and swap. Everytime I went through this installation 
make disk label would fail because the swap was pushing past the disk boundary.
>Fix:
A potential work-around:
I decided to leave the geometry alone and instead adjusted the mbr partition. I 
reduced it by roughly 16MB. I also changed both the root and swap partition 
sizes (made both smaller) to ensure they didn't attempt to push past the 
boundary. The installation progressed past the make disk label step and started 
to install software sets.