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Bug#396931: marked as done (http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz makes usb-stick unusable)

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Package: installation-report
Version: 02-Nov-2006 16:06  15.0M
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


I downloaded the usb-image from 
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/
ie. the file
boot.img.gz             02-Nov-2006 16:06  15.0M  

Before continuing I get from fdisk -l: 
Disk /dev/sda: 1021 MB, 1021312512 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 124 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         125      997344    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(123, 254, 63) logical=(124, 42, 45)

As from the manual 
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s04.html
I issue 
zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
and get from 'fdisk -l'

Disk /dev/sda: 1021 MB, 1021312512 bytes
32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1952 * 512 = 999424 bytes

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   ?     1547397     1547657      253319   e4  SpeedStor
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(190, 120, 0) logical=(1547396, 26, 15)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(544, 125, 44) logical=(1547656, 11, 47)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   ?      515657     1534084   993984023   98  Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(1010, 16, 43) logical=(515656, 25, 37)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(205, 205, 22) logical=(1534083, 1, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3   ?      869174     1852732   959953209   7d  Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(252, 139, 46) logical=(869173, 1, 19)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(367, 195, 2) logical=(1852731, 20, 61)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4   ?       17157       21421     4161536    0  Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(17156, 6, 19)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(21420, 2, 6)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Stick cannot be formatted by cfdisk, but fdisk does the job. 

HTH,
Johannes

I downloaded the file twice, 15.0 MB; same result.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> As from the manual 
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s04.html
> I issue 
> zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
> and get from 'fdisk -l'
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 1021 MB, 1021312512 bytes
> 32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1952 * 512 = 999424 bytes
> 
> This doesn't look like a partition table
> Probably you selected the wrong device.

This is an expected result. The image replaces the partition table with
a single, bootable filesystem.

> Stick cannot be formatted by cfdisk, but fdisk does the job. 

Yes, if you want to put a partition table back on it, you use a tool
like fdisk.

-- 
see shy jo

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