Re: Issue mounting partitions
Hi Thorsten,
Good guess!
parted (1.6.6) has trouble accessing my partitions. I may be parted's
fault, as fdisk doesn't complain at all.
See the below output I got from Mandrake GNU/Linux 9.2...
Do you think I should report a bug on Partconf, or directly to the GNU
Parted people?
Cheers,
Michael
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[root@localhost root]# parted
GNU Parted 1.6.6
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
the GNU General Public License for more
details.
Using /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Error: Unable to open /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc -
unrecognised disk label.
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc is 1023/64/32.
(parted) print
Error: Unable to open /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc -
unrecognised disk label.
(parted) quit
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
[root@localhost root]# parted /dev/hda print
Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that
another partitioning tool generated an
incorrect partition table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS
geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may
cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore/Cancel? C
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
[root@localhost root]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4864.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 783 6289416 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 784 2467 13526730 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 914 1703 6345675 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 2468 4864 19253871 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 784 913 1044193+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 1704 2467 6136798+ 83 Linux
Hi Michael,
* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2003-11-11 23:18]:
| Thanks for going to the trouble to take photos of it and put them up on
| the web.
do you think it's possible to try to configure your partitions with
parted? Either during the debian-installer or in your real system.
Partconf highly depends on parted (any the underlaying libraries) so
it's maybe a bug in parted.
Thanks for your great help,
Thorsten
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