Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

["Eugenia Franzoni" <eugenia@catnic.it>]

>> Accessing them manually (i.e. mkswap on the first partition and mke2fs
>> on the second, via the console in F2) was successful. Even after
>> creating the filesystem, the partitions are not listed in "configure
>> and mount partitions"
>
> Do these partitions overlap in the partition table?  Is this a BSD
> disklabel-using disk (probably not) that has a partition overlapping
> the beginning of the disk?

well, no. I created them during the installation, before it was just
one large partition where I had installed debian (years ago).
Checked, no BSD partition, the cylinders do not overlap (part1 begins
at 1 and ends at 496, part2 begins at 497 and ends at the end of
the disk).

The only unusual thing about this disk is that it's an old one on a new
controller - the disk is a 2.1 GB Quantum Fireball I took out of my old
Pentium I and the controller is a new one (on an Asus K7VTA-B I already
used with other disks). Mke2fs worked anyway, and the partition can
be mounted manually without problems, so the disk is detected and
working ok. It just doesn't show in the list :)

E.