Bug#249650: marked as done (Dealing with partitions in combination with motherboard limitations)
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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: beta4, x86,
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux frodo 2.6.6 #2 Tue May 18 18:19:37 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: Sunday May 16
Method: I installed from the CD (from which I booted). didn't use
network until the installation was finished.
Machine:
Processor: Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda3
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1 * 1 8924 71681998+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 8925 8992 546210 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 8993 16287 58597087+ 83 Linux
hda1= win2k partition, hda2=swap, hda3=root
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1647 Northbridge [MAGiK 1 /
MobileMAGiK 1] (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
(rev 10)
0000:00:06.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
[Aladdin IV]
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8029(AS)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15DDR
[GeForce2 Ti] (rev a4)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [o]
Configure network HW: [o]
Config network: [o]
Detect CD: [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Detect hard drives: [o]
Partition hard drives: [e]
Create file systems: [o]
Mount partitions: [o]
Install base system: [o]
Install boot loader: [o]
Reboot: [o]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
OK, so partitioning didn't quite work. This is partly my (mainboard's)
fault, partly installer's.
The situation is: My Mainboard only supports either PIO, or harddisks
larger than 128 GB. d-i enabled dma. In windows, I had pio disabled and
created an extended partition, and I wanted to install debian into a
logical partition inside that one. Now, that extended partition crossed
that 128 GB boundary.
/sbin/fdisk didn't seem to mind much; cfdisk did (complained that
partition table was larger than disk), and I assume that is the reason
why d-i didn't show any partitions on this harddisk, even though a NTFS
partition did exist. imho it should have shown it.
anyway, eventually I deleted that partition, and decided to only use the
lower 128 GB. I can't remember if I let d-i partition automagically, I
don't think I did.
That was the first problem.
The next problem was: At the end of the installation, d-i tried to
upgrade the system. Unfortunately console-common seems to have a problem
in testing, which caused an "error 9" when installing. I fixed this by
changing "testing" to "unstable" in /etc/apt/sources.list which I wanted
to install anyway.
Oh, and finally: The installer didn't seem to recognize my win2k
installation on the NTFS partition. but I see that you listed this on
the errata page, and have fixed it already.
The rest went ok, I think. Surprisingly well in fact. You did a good job :)
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:10:02 +0300
From: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>
To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de>, 249650-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#249650: installation report (beta4, success)
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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:43:37AM +0200, Christian Biesinger wrote:
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> It should have shown the partitions, even though one of them was larger
> than the disk.
I think this is dangerous. The partitioning program should decline to
work with wrong partition table, otherwise there might be occasions when
the partitioner makes unnotices errors leading to data loss.
If you think that I am wrong, feel free to say so and I will reopen and
reassign this bug to parted.
Anton Zinoviev
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