Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:04:39PM +0200, mzenker@gnotometrics.de wrote:
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1      2349  17758408+   7  HPFS/NTFS         # WIN XP
> /dev/hda2          4695      5168   3583440   41  PPC PReP Boot     # IBM system partition
> /dev/hda3          2350      3321   7348320    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA) # data partition. I booted from this one
> /dev/hda4          3738      4694   7234920    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA) # extended
> /dev/hda5          3738      3805    514048+  82  Linux swap        # swap (SuSE, to be used for Debian also)
> /dev/hda6          3806      4694   6720808+  83  Linux             # SuSE root partition
> /dev/hda7          3738      3738        30+  83  Linux             # created at previous 
> /dev/hda8          3806      3806        31   83  Linux             # repartition attempt - see below

Notice that hda7 and hda8 start before the end of hda6.  This partition
table is broken (some partitioning tools are making such partition
tables) and in order to be safe the partitioning program of the
installer refuses to work with it.  If you remove hda7 and hda8 the
problem (I hope) will disappear.

> Everything went fine until the partitioning step. The partitioner refused to detect the
> existing partition table. I was only offered the possibility to entirely erase the HD.
> So I could not proceed. :(

I think that the partitioning program should offer an information
message about the possible reasons why the partition table was not
recognised.

Anton Zinoviev