Re: Bug#41440: Critical install bug in slink
vilmossoti@home.com writes:
>I wanted to install slink (just downloaded from ftp.debian.org
>stable dir) and it successfully wiped out another partition....It
>seems the kernel's idea about the partitions is different from
>the rest of the installation stuff.
>
>Here is the relevant part of dmesg:
>
>hda: WDC AC23200L, 3098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=787/128/63, DMA
>hdb: Maxtor 91303D6, 12427MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, DMA
>........
>Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb4 < hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11 hdb12 hdb13 hdb14 hdb15 hdb16 >
>
>And here is the partition table according to fdisk:
>
>Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hdb1 1 128 1028128+ a6 OpenBSD
>/dev/hdb2 129 256 1028160 a9 Unknown
>/dev/hdb3 * 257 384 1028160 a5 BSD/386
>/dev/hdb4 385 1578 9590805 5 Extended
>Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1577, 254, 63)
>/dev/hdb5 385 512 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb6 513 640 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb7 641 768 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb8 769 896 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb9 897 1024 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb10 1025 1152 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb11 1153 1280 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb12 1281 1408 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb13 1409 1536 1028128+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb14 1537 1578 337333+ 82 Linux swap
>...the problem is my /dev/hdb3 partition is a FreeBSD 3.2. It has two
>BSD "partitions" and it is interpreted by the kernel but not by the
>other install programs. I wanted to install slink on hdb7 but it (as
>I later figured out) formatted hdb5. Also, it formatted hdb12 as swap
>partition.
The kernel seems to think this disk has two extended partitions, which
I did not think was valid. Does BSD do something unique?
What does sfdisk report?
- Jim Van Zandt
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