Bug#250550: Partitioning failure

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

clone 250550 -1
reassign -1 partman
severity -1 wishlist
retitle -1 should warn if it cannot read the partition table
thanks

* Marcel Ammerlaan <marcel-spam@wanadoo.nl> [2004-05-23 21:05]:
> The partioning is the result of some Partitionmagic resizing for the 
> pre-installed Windows XP and after that a SuSE 9 installation. Cfdisk
> cannot read the disk (Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends after 
> end-of-disk) but fdisk can.
> The installer shows the disk as having no partitions at all, instead
> of giving an error message that it doesn't understand the disk.

Reassigning to partman

> There is a Broadcom Tg3 in this machine. It works with Windows XP,
> and used to work with suse using the bcm5700 driver from broadcom.
> The tg3 driver fails in the common way (it says it is handling
> it, but the led on the back of the machine is mostly of except
> for a slight blink every second or so). No network installation
> possible.

What kind of chip do you have exactly?  Can you print the output of
the kernel when you load the tg3 module.  Have you heard of other
people with this problem?

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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com