Bug#265001: install: impotent sparc partitioner: sys32_ioctl: unknown cmd fd(10)
Package: install
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
(Note: this bug was filed on an i386 sid box.)
I just tried the nightly release of Sarge installer on a Sun Enterprise
250. Detection of the SCSI hard disks went fine, but partitioning is
not functional at all. I have noticed two issues:
First, selecting the whole disks prompts whether to start with a blank
partition table, then a confirmation. After pressing yes both times,
the disk has no available partitions listed. By this point,
partitioning is no longer possible at all.
I did successfully install by deleting some old partitions, freeing up
everything, and then starting from there:
sda1: swap 512m
sda2: / ext3 (the rest, about 8.5g)
I noticed the kernel spot the new partition layout in dmesg. However,
after a successful installation, the system was not bootable. Openboot
said the disk was not ready and that it could not read the disk label.
Re-running the installer showed that the only partition was a 9gb swap.
Throughout all this I have noticed in dmesg the following error message
when I attempt to change the partitioning:
sys32_ioctl(partd_server:3543): Unknown cmd fd(10) cmd(2000126c) arg(efff530)
The values of cmd and arg change somewhat.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: sparc
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-sparc64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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