Bug#286534: Installer fails to read partition table.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:22:16PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> reassign 286534 partman
> severity 286534 critical
> retitle 286534 [MERGED] Finds no partition table on disk with unaligned partitions
> merge 242114 286534
> thanks
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:25:50AM -0500, Eric Carlsen wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone is listening or if I'm annoying people with bugs
> > they're alread aware
>
> The bug reports are always usefull even when they are annoying. :-)
>
> > of but it appears that this bug has already been
> > reported. I just found it as bug #242114.
>
> Yes, at least to me this seams as the same bug.
>
> > I also notice that when I use a newer
> > version of parted (1.6.9) in knoppix it still
> > complains about the disk size but it does print out the partitions
> > correctly. When I tried to go to a console using the debian installer
> > and run parted it wouldn't show the partition table at all, it just
> > complained about the overlapping partitions. I noticed that the bug
>
> So debian installer has to wait for the new version of parted. It uses
> the library of parted in order to edit the partition table. Thanks.
Just one thing, the version of parted in sarge is 1.6.11 + some backported
patches, and the version in experimental is 1.6.20, so in no way is the
version in knoppix newer than the debian version, unless there is a mistake
here somewhere.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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