Re: can't partition disk?

["Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger" <wuerdinger@highspeed-firewall.de>]

Jiann-Ming Su schrieb:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:14:25 +0100, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this on O2?  It worked for me last night.
> > --
>
>
> Yep.  I just went through it again.  I wonder if the install gets
> confused if it thinks there's already a previous installation?

I've seen exactly that behavier with RC3 netboot.img on a
SUN Blade 100.

So it looks like that's not only a bug on SPARC64/SUN4U.

Do you have any logs to open up a bug?

>  I've
> noticed with the debian installer that "hidden" options show up
> depending on which selections you make.  For example, one of my
> installs today allowed me to manually run fdisk, and I'm not quite
> sure how to repeat it.  In another, I got to choose which kernel was
> installed.
>
> BTW, "bootp():" without arguments works.
>         
>    |                       No boot loader installed                        |    
>    | No boot loader has been installed, either because you chose not to or |    
>    | because your specific architecture doesn't support a boot loader yet. |    
>    |                                                                       |    
>    | You will need to boot manually with the /vmlinux kernel on partition  |    
>    | /dev/sda1 and root=/dev/sda1 passed as kernel argument.               |    
>    |                                                                       |    
>    |                              <Continue>                               |    
>    |                                                                  
>     |

greets Uwe
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