Bug#61387: Solaris filesystem slices lead to unsuccessful mount of install target partition.
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.8
When installing Debian 2.2 Potato on a hard disk with a Solaris system
already installed, the partition numbers are misunderstood during
partition selection, since the number used to identify the target is
that shown by 'fdisk', not what the 'mount' command expects. See below:
hda: SAMSUNG WA32162A, 2060MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=523/128/63
hdb: ST36421A, 6150MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
...
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 <solaris: [s0] hdb5 [s1] hdb6 [s2] hdb7 [s6] hdb8 [s7] hdb9 >
hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb10 hdb11 hdb12 hdb13 hdb14 >
The 'fdisk' command shows:
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 193 1550241 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb2 194 448 2048287+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 449 576 1028160 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb4 577 784 1670760 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 577 653 618471 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 654 717 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 718 756 313236 6 FAT16
/dev/hdb8 757 772 128488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb9 773 784 96358+ 82 Linux swap
I wanted to install on that partition shown by the installation dialog
as /dev/hdb8, but 'mount' was unsuccessful. Jumping to the console and
issuing 'mount /dev/hdb13 /target' succeeded.
The /proc/partition information seems OK.
Thank you.
Claudio.
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