Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:44:28PM +0200, mzenker@gnotometrics.de wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sven Luther [mailto:sven.luther@wanadoo.fr]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:22 PM
> > To: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart)
> > Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge:
> > debian-installer partitioning failure]
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:12:41AM +0200,
> > mzenker@gnotometrics.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have just learnt that the bug I encountered when trying
> > to install
> > > Sarge is known under #242114 (Finds no
> > > partition table on a disk with partition table recognisable
> > by fdisk), and is 148 (!!) days old. Is there a means
> > > to find out what the status is, and when a fix can be expected?
> >
> > What kernel where you using, and what did you use ot create
> > that partition table ?
>
> I was using the installer with kernel 2.6.7-1-386 (that is what uname -a
> says in the installer shell - for additional info see also my initial
> installation report entitled "Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer
> partitioning failure").
> The initial partition table was probably generated by some version of
> parted, namely the one used by the SUSE Linux professional 9.0 installer
> (but I'm not sure, I didn't install SUSE myself). I modified it with
> YAST2 first (I think that YAST2 uses parted, but again I'm not sure),
> but that failed probably since I tried it from the running system. I
> then used a Knoppix 3.4 CD with kernel 2.4.23-xfs and fixed the
> partition with fdisk 2.12.
Could you provide the reported geometry on both a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6 kernel
? This is probably the infamous 2.6 geometry bug/feature/whatver.
This should be fixed in 1.6.12 for which i am preparing packages, but it
breaks binary compatibility, so using this is a no-go for sarge as i
understand, as parted is part of base, which was frozen by start of august.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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