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Bug#489072: marked as done (Partition table damaged)

Your message dated Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:12 +0000
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and subject line Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #489072
has caused the Debian Bug report #489072,
regarding Partition table damaged
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20070308etch2

I did a Debian install on a machine that already had XP installed, grub
gave Error 18, I replaced this with an LBA MBR and Lilo in the partition
boot sector and got "L 99" after adding "ignore-table". I removed and
reinstalled the debian partitions and the install succeeded on the second
try. I was unable to repeat the failure, however, I suspect part of the
cause was the very ugly partition table (which did repeat):

Script started on Thu 03 Jul 2008 00:21:29 BST
debian:~# sfdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 77520 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1          0+  15884   15885-   8006008+   7  HPFS/NTFS
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,239,63)
/dev/hda2   *  15889+  74890-  59001-  29736315   83  Linux
		start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (997,0,1)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)
/dev/hda3      74890+  77519    2630-   1325362+   5  Extended
		start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)
/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda5      74890+  77519    2630-   1325331   82  Linux swap / Solaris
		start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)
debian:~# sfdisk -d /dev/hda
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
# partition table of /dev/hda
unit: sectors

/dev/hda1 : start=       63, size= 16012017, Id= 7
/dev/hda2 : start= 16016805, size= 59472630, Id=83, bootable
/dev/hda3 : start= 75489435, size=  2650725, Id= 5
/dev/hda4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/hda5 : start= 75489498, size=  2650662, Id=82
debian:~# Script done on Thu 03 Jul 2008 00:23:55 BST 

There are three CHS values here:
   BIOS invention:   1024:240:63
   Kernel invention: 1024:16:63
   Fdisk invention:  1024:255:63

I would expect only the CHS invented by the BIOS is of any interest to
anyone. The fact that the fdisk tool you used has seen fit to invent a
layout is definitly a bug, however, is probably triggered by the kernel's
randomness. Note, before debian-installer messed with it the partition
table was identified correctly as being created under a BIOS 1024:240:63
layout by both "fdisk" and "sfdisk". (I used fdisk to resize the windows
partition)
On install I chose "Guided install on empty disk space" (slightly paraphrased) and "everything in one partition". The only other 
non-"henpeck" option was use of UK English (it detected a laptop
install)


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Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                             <http://www.debath.co.uk/>

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We are closing this bug report against debian-installer 
for one of the following reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the bug report give the feeling that
  the reported problem was lying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
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still present, please reiterate your installation test with
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