Bug#250550: Partitioning failure
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2004-05-23
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:00 EST 2004 i686 unknown
Date: 23 May 2004
Method: cdrom
Machine: IBM Thinkpad G40
Processor: Pentium 4
Memory: 1Gb
Root Device: IDE (/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0)
Root Size/partition table:
fdisk -l output (typed by hand)
Disk disc: 37.0 GB 37015251456 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4781 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
part1 * 1 2624 19837408 7 HPFS/NTFS
part2 2625 3302 5125680 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
part3 3303 3441 1050840 82 Linux swap
part4 3442 5168 13056120 83 Linux
part5 2625 3302 5125648 b W95 FAT32
Output of lspci: NA
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [E]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The partioning is the result of some Partitionmagic resizing for the
pre-installed Windows XP and after that a SuSE 9 installation. Cfdisk
cannot read the disk (Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends after
end-of-disk) but fdisk can.
The installer shows the disk as having no partitions at all, instead
of giving an error message that it doesn't understand the disk.
There is a Broadcom Tg3 in this machine. It works with Windows XP,
and used to work with suse using the bcm5700 driver from broadcom.
The tg3 driver fails in the common way (it says it is handling
it, but the led on the back of the machine is mostly of except
for a slight blink every second or so). No network installation
possible.
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