Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:00:00PM +0200, mzenker@gnotometrics.de wrote:
> > 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?
By the kernel. i don't know fdisk, but maybe, also look in the dmesg output
too.
> > 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??
The fix should not make it into sarge with the current release schedule.
Anything else would need an intervention of one of the RMs and/or joeyh. It is
out of my hands.
> I can hardly imagine that...
Yeah, but then, a binary incompatible library upgrade at this time is rather
over-late.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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