Bug#307563: [MIPS] Installer fails to find partition to install if partitions is > N

[Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: important

I tried to install tbm's O2 netboot image (2005-04-24) to install Debian
on my "new" O2. Well, the installation went ok in general, but I noticed
that the partitioning process failed to proceed when I created too many
partitions in the system. "too many" being 9 (well 7+2):

/boot  (afterwards I learned that arcboot doesn't really support a
	separate /boot partition, but until that moment i didn't know
	that).
/
/usr
/var
/tmp
/home
swap

plus the usual SGI_volhdr and SGI_volume partitions. After I saved the
partition table with fdisk, it failed to recognize my partitions and I
had to redo the whole process from the start.

This time, I created 5 partitions (3+2):

/
swap
+another big one, which I set up as an lvm partition.

This time the procedure went smoothly.

Hope I helped someone with this.

Konstantinos

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
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