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Bug#515990: debian-installer: Fails to detect partitions on hard disk



I had a problem like this just yesterday, and below is a copy of the
e-mail I sent to the lists (debian-boot and debian-user):

Well, I found out the cause of the problem: it seems that my previous
install of Ubuntu somehow managed to create a swap partition that
overlapped a bit of the beginning of the next partition. As a result
anything that used libparted could not read the partition list
properly, leading to that issue. I tested it with a livecd, using
gparted, and it showed the same result.
After running testdisk with a deep search, I removed the malformed
swap partition and created a new one, and succeeded in installing
lenny :)

If you need help using testdisk, just ask.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:46:11PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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>> Please verify if parted sees the partition table.
>
> Parted reports "Error: Cannot have overlapping partitions."
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