RE: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven Luther [mailto:sven.luther@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:04 PM
> To: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart)
> Cc: sven.luther@wanadoo.fr; 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 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.
Geometry reported by what? fdisk -l?
I could boot Knoppix once with kernel 2.4, once with 2.6, and invoke
fdisk -l /dev/hda each time.
Would that be what you need?
> 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.
You mean, the fix will not make it into sarge? This would mean sarge
will not be installable on a certain number of machines??
I can hardly imagine that...
Best regards,
Matthias Zenker
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
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