Bug#228870: marked as done (Can't mount partition on hdb as /)
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Subject: Can't mount partition on hdb as /
From: "Eugenia Franzoni" <eugenia@catnic.it>
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I downloaded the Sarge Net installer from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/20040120/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
The computer I tried it on has 2 disks (hda and hdb). I tried the
installationon hdb. The partitioning went ok, the disk is recognized as
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc (QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A)
- note: it is an old HD on a new controller (VIA
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C)
So "disk partitioning" went ok. The partition table I created is:
part1 Linux Swap
part2 Linux (bootable)
The problem is that these partitions (either of them) are not included in the
list of the partition in the "configure and mount partitions" step, so I
can't use them for the installation.
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"
Eugenia
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To: Eugenia Franzoni <eugenia@catnic.it>
Cc: sven.luther@wanadoo.fr, 228870-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:45:34PM +0100, Eugenia Franzoni wrote:
> > The question to know here, is if what you saw was the result of a
> > mistake of yours (choosing pc98 instead of msdos), or because your disk
> > was already formatted in pc98 modus. If this is so, we can close this
> > bug report.
> >
> > If on the other hand, the presence of a pc98 partition table is due to
> > for some reason or other some part of d-i choosing it for you, or
> > recomending you to use it, then this is a d-i bug, and needs to be
> > closed.
> >
> > But this distinction, i fear, only you can make it, since i am not
> > really all that familiar with the partitioning tools involved in d-i,
> > and i don't know exactly what you did or did not.
>
> ok.
>
> During the installation I didn't choose or recommend any type of
> partition table.
>
> I am not aware of a previous pc98 partition table. The disk had already
> worked well under previous debian installation (and a try with a woody
> installer worked).
Ok, that makes sense, i believe we can close this bug then.
> So, probably, the partition table was already pc98, it worked with a woody
> installer but not with the new one -> the old installer had a feature the
> new one has not?
Well, woody installer uses cfdisk, while d-i used parted as partitioning
tool, which is maybe too strict or something with pc98 partitions. I
don't really know.
Anyway, writting a msdos disklabel solved it, so let's close this bug.
For reference, i copy here the information about this provided by Andrew
Clausen :
It looks like you have a pc98 (not msdos) partition table.
On pc98 (at the time this code was written), the BIOS/Linux worked
together nicely to get this info reliably.
It seems Linux doesn't provide reliable info anymore or something like
that.
> The other possibility is that something strange happened that made parted
> think that the partition table was pc98. Rewriting it as msdos worked.
>
> I don't know if the woody installer supported pc98 tables, so I can't
> guess which one of the two is the right one. If it's the second one,
> I have not thought of backupping the old partition table, so it's lost :!
> and I can't think of a way of knowing what was wrong.
>
> So I guess:
> * if the old installer supported pc98 tables -> there's a bug in parted
> that doesn't read well pc98 tables (or a feature missing)
A problem with the way linux threats disk geometry would be more likely.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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