Re: Status of Debian on Sun Blade 150
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
Frans Pop wrote:
With sun-disklabel you are not allowed to put swap or RAID or LVM at the
start of the disk. ext2/ext3 are OK.
Frans, if you are referring to #283303, I thought that we've fixed it.
At least the bug is marked 'fixed' when version 62 of partman has been
uploaded, and I remember testing it and confirming that the bug is gone.
Version in RC3 is 63, so it should be fixed there too.
I didn't do it. Solaris 9 installer did it! It is the one who put
swap space at clusters 0-258:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 19156 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 258 319 124440 83 Linux native /boot
/dev/hda2 u 0 258 526320 3 SunOS swap
/dev/hda3 0 19156 39078240 5 Whole disk
/dev/hda4 15391 19156 7680600 2 SunOS root
/dev/hda5 3660 6744 6291360 83 Linux native /
(sarge1)
/dev/hda6 6744 10574 7813200 83 Linux native /home
/dev/hda7 10574 15391 9826680 83 Linux native /
(sarge2)
/dev/hda8 319 3660 6815640 8 SunOS home
Wow, this is one complicated partition configuration. I would not be too
surprised that partman chokes on it. I was trying to suggest to create a
clean disklabel before partitioning, but as I understand it is out of the
question =).
User error. That's impolite. 'Cause I've spent LOTS of time crafting
that multiboot configuration. The best proof is that installer DID
everything correctly first time (when all partitions were right), then
after formatting swap (hda2) it turned out that it was unable to display
partitions list anymore. From my POV it is the one to blame.
If it is indeed user error (I mean: the Solaris installer's and my error),
then I'm terribly sorry. But in that case please elaborate more how it
should be done The Right Way. Keep in mind that multiboot with a spare
partition is a must.
Everyone is working towards the same goal here, so let's not get too picky
about the choice of words. Please try partitioning with fdisk, as Frans
suggested. If it will work as expected, we can be pretty confident that
the problem lies with partman. Also, it would be interesting to see
whether parted and fdisk recognize the partition sizes and types correctly
on a runnning system.
Thanks and best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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