d-i problem on sparc32 with partitions
Hi, I tried to install sarge on Sun Sparcstation 5/170 with the latest
installer,
debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20050317/images/sparc32/netboot/2.6/boot.img
and failed.
Everything went fine until I started partitioning the disk. It's a 4.3G
COMPAQ ST34371W (Seagate). Previously it was partitioned like that (only
sizes and names from /proc/partitions copied by hand from the screen):
4193000 sda
1855440 sda1
1855440 sda2
4190400 sda3
I don't know what disklabel it used, dmesg didn't tell anything about
disklabel type.
I chose to erase entire disk, then /proc/partitions showed this
suspicios table:
4193000 sda
2147483647 sda3
And then I chose to use single partition and got error message telling
Failed to partition the selected disk
This probably happened because there are too many (primary) partitions
in the partition table.
I tried with 2.4.24-based netboot installer from the same directory,
clearing the partition table with dd before. Still the same - it created
2T sda3 and then failed. So it seems to be not kernel-specific but
rather parted.
Looks like it failed in creating the whole disk partition and/or
quessing wrong the disk size.
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Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)
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