Re: libfdisk problem in dinstall

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:07:13PM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote:
> Another thing that caused trouble when I tried installing from the base
> disks (1998-04-11) yesterday was a libfdisk error that prevented dinstall
> from detecting that a swap partition had been created. An error message
> was printed before returning to the dinstall menu, and it came from this
> section of libfdisk.
> 
> int sread(int fd, unsigned long sector, void *buffer)
> {
>     if (!sseek( fd, sector ))
>         return 0;
>     if (read( fd, buffer, 512 ) != 512) {
>         fprintf( stderr, "error reading sector %ld", sector );
>         perror("");
>         return 0;
>     }
>     return 1;
> }
> 
> I was receiving the message "error reading sector 0" all the time, but
> cfdisk handled the partitioning just fine, so I expect this is a problem
> in libfdisk or dinstall somewhere.
> 
> I did reboot the machine after the 'partition' step, as suggested by
> cfdisk, but even then this error occurred, and when I tried the 'Init
> a swap partition step' dinstall reported a strange error message 'No DOS
> FAT12 partitions were found that are not already mounted.' This made
> no sense at all, as no partitions were yet mounted. (NB the partition
> types were set correctly.)
> 
> In the end, I had to dinstall without swap setup, and set it up later
> when the base system booted.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced these kind of problems?

Was your swap partition a logical partition? libfdisk had a bug reading
extended partitions in big disks. A fixed libfdisk will be included in next
boot-floppies release.

	Thanks,
--
Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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