Hi Dan, On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:34:34PM -0400, Dan Cernese wrote: > After running 2.6.5-1-smp on DS20Ls for almost a year, a disk died on one > of them. I fsck'd some partitions, but I believe the kernel image (or > initrd) is just not valid, I'm unable to boot. > So I downloaded the daily build d-i for alpha (18-may-2005), and burned me > a cd-rom and booted it. > I found that partman couldn't see the partitions on my disk, which I > wanted to preserve. The only thing it would give me a choice to do was > select the whole (IDE1) disk and create a new partition table. > Rather than do that, I shell'd out and mounted all the partitions and > verified that everything was there. I used fdisk and double checked, and > the partitions are there. So I search around the debian archives and > stumbled across a piece of myself with the same problem a year ago > (almost): Does your partition table include a Tru64-style full disk slice? Unfortunately, the sarge version of partman treats overlapping partitions as an invalid partition table. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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