Bug#354819: installation-report: problems detecting partitions created by Disk Utility
On Thursday 02 March 2006 11:32, you wrote:
> > I partitioned the hard disk from OS X Installer's Disk Utility, basically
> > creating a 18GB HFS+ partition at the end of the disk for MacOS X and
> > leaving the rest of the disk free.
> >
> > The installer completely failed to detect the partitions, and only
> > offered me to repartition my whole hard disk again.
>
> this is very strange and should not have happened. Can you now that you
> have the installed system, try to run parted on it, and see what it reports
> (use only the print command of parted). if parted doesn't show the right
> thing, could you file a bug report against parted, and append the first few
> sectors of your disk (dd if=/dev/hda of=file_for_parted count=64) ?
>
> If it shows this correctly in parted, then there is something horribly
> wrong with partman.
I've got this:
sweetie# parted /dev/hda print
Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition.
Ignore/Cancel? i
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 80GB
Disk label type: mac
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1kB 32kB 32kB Apple
2 33kB 851kB 819kB hfs bootstrap boot
3 852kB 1075MB 1074MB linux-swap swap
4 1075MB 60GB 59GB ext3 root root
5 60GB 60GB 134MB hfs+ eXternal booter
6 60GB 80GB 20GB hfsx Apple_HFSX_Untitled_1
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
as you see it gets an error, but it can continue if I ignore it, may be
partman is not "ignoring" that error (which I don't know how severe is),
and returns nothing
Best regards
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