Bug#374001: Etch-Installtion | Partman doesn´t recognize partitions => no installation possible
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2006-06-05
Severity: serious
Hello,
I tried to install Debian-Etch on my Notebook:
Maxdata Mbook 1200X
Athlon XP 2400+
HDD: Fujitsu MHT2040AT (40GB)
But when I should partition the HDD, Partman shows me no partition and no
HDD.
I did the following steps during the installation:
- After booting I typed "install vga=771" (else I can´t only see stripes on
the screen)
- Choose Language / Choose a language => English
- Choose Language / Choose a country => United States
- Choose Language / Choose a locale => en_US.UTF-8
- Choose Language / Choose other locales => nothing selected
- Select a keyboard layout => German
- Configure the network / Primary network interface => eth0: VIA
Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
- Configure the network / Hostname => debian
- Configure the network / Domain name => home
- Choose a mirror of the Debian archive => Germany
- Choose a mirror of the Debian archive => ftp.de.debian.org
- Choose a mirror of the Debian archive => (no proxy)
- Partition disks / Partition method => Now I can only choose "Mannually
edit partition table" !!!!!!
- Partition disks => Now I can only choose "Configure software RAID",
"Configure the Logical Volume Manager", "Guided partitioning", "Help on
partitioning", "Undo changes to partitons" or "Finish partitioning an write
changes to disk"
Between the lines "Help on partitioning" and "Undo changes to partitons" are
two (or three) blank lines. I´ve seen in the manual, that in these lines
should be the available partioions.
If I now choose "Guided partitioning", I get the following screen:
- Partition disks => Manually edit partition table" and it goes back to the
site before.
If I choose "Undo changes to partitons" or "go back" I get a blue screen an
nothing else happens.
If I choose "Finish partitioning an write changes to disk" I get an allert:
No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning
menu". The it goes back to the site before.
When I go to the BusyBox, I can display with fdisk /dev/hda my partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 14 650 5116671+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 651 4684 33848955 f W95 Ext´d (LBA)
/dev/hda3 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 651 1925 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 1926 2056 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 2057 2118 497983+ 82 Linux swap / solaris
/dev/hda8 2119 2726 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 2727 4864 17173453+ 83 Linux
I created the partitions /hda3, /hda7-9 with fdisk. Before, there where only
the Windows partitions. But while installation, I get the same problems.
I searched for the technical data from the HDD
(http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/storage/hdd/eol/mhdd/cmos.h
tml) and found:
Model Cylinders Heads Sectors Capacity(*) Sectors(**) Capacity (**)
MHT2040AT 16,383 16 63 8.45 GB 78,140,160 40.0 GB
But the bios shows other auto-detected values:
Size Cyln Head Wpcom Sec LBA Mode Blk Mode PIO Mode 32Bit Mode
40008MB 19152 16 0 255 On On 4 On
What could be the problem? Can you help me?
With best regards
Heiko Thole
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