Parted still fails to see partitions - Was: Bug#269036 not fixed in parted 1.6.11
Hi,
I have now tried the newest builds - still no way to install on this machine because of the failure to detect the existing partitions properly.
I have used the following files
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 13-Sep-2004 23:41 34.6M
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/2.6/initrd.gz 13-Sep-2004 12:32 3.0M
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/2.6/vmlinuz 13-Sep-2004 12:32 1.0M
to boot from hard disk. Inside the installer, my partition table is not found.
So I start a shell.
* uname -a tells me:
Linux notebook-mz 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Mon Aug 16 03:02:48 EDT 2004 i686 unknown
* fdisk -l says:
Disk /dev/discs/disc0/disc: 36.3 GB, 36344161280 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4694 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 * 1 2349 17758408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 4695 5168 3583440 41 PPC PReP Boot
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 2350 3321 7348320 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/discs/disc0/part4 3322 4694 10379880 5 Extended
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 3738 3805 514080 82 Linux swap
/dev/discs/disc0/part6 3806 4694 6720808+ 83 Linux
/dev/discs/disc0/part7 3322 3737 3144928+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
* parted says:
GNU Parted 1.6.11 with HFS shrink patch 12.5
[...]
Using /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc is 70421/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024
ends at 503.999M.
* in dmesg, I find the following lines:
hda: IC25N040ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: DW-225, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 70984690 sectors (36344 MB)
native capacity is 78140160 sectors (40007 MB)
hda: 70984690 sectors (36344 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 >
It might also be interesting that I had first downloaded the initrd.gz and vmlinux for kernel 2.4, and parted also fails to detect the partition table.
The resulting question is still the same:
how can I install sarge on this machine?
Thank you,
Matthias
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mzenker@gnotometrics.de [mailto:mzenker@gnotometrics.de]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 3:39 PM
> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#269036 not fixed in parted 1.6.11
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have had some problems with parted not recognizing my disk
> partitions recently (see
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg03147.html and
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg03247.html).
> Now after one week of absence, I have tried to install again,
> and unfortunately the behaviour is unchanged.
>
> I have used
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040
> 909/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 09-Sep-2004 23:06 41.6M
> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-09-10/hd-media
> /2.6/initrd.gz 10-Sep-2004 12:30 3.0M
> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-09-10/hd-media
> /2.6/vmlinuz 10-Sep-2004 12:30 1.0M
>
> to boot from hard disk. The partitioner still does not detect
> my partitions, so I cannot install. When I start fdisk from
> the shell, I see my partitions. When I start parted from the
> shell, I get the following output:
>
> snip++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> GNU Parted 1.6.11 with HFS shrink patch 12.5
> Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General
> Public License.
>
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
> useful, but WITHOUT ANY
> WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> Using /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
>
> Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
>
>
> Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc is 70421/16/63.
> Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M.
>
>
> (parted)
>
>
> Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
>
> snap++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Questions:
> * what can I do to install Sarge? Can I circumvent parted in
> some way? (It seems to me that there should be some
> possibility to do this, unless you expect to have parted
> absolutely bulletproof at release time...)
>
> * what can I do to help track down this bug, which
> information do you need? I have a running SUSE Linux 9.0 (2.4
> kernel) on that machine, and can also boot Knoppix with a 2.4
> or 2.6.1 kernel.
>
> Matthias
>
>
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