Installer - 3.0-r0 on 250GB HD drives
Hi,
somewhat returning to Debian from a long time break I had to install
(admittedly not current version) 3.0-r0 on a PC with a new 250GB hard
drive. The harddrive was "pre-partitioned" with a CD of a rescue set
(rescuecd.sf.net) that is based on Sarge without problems.
Unfortunately it seems that cfdisk as well as fdisk from 3.0-r0 fail on
that large disk. cfdisks says the first partition is larger than the
drive, fdisk says it cannot access the disk. Furthermore I cannot select
the pre-partitioned swap partition in the installer.
When I looked into dmesg, I realized that the kernel detected the hard
disk as 128GB disk with wrong geometry. So I booted the kernel with
correct hda geometry, which is shown correctly in dmesg. However the
disk is still reported as 128GB disk.
Finally I tried the bf24 kernel without any change.
Is this a famous problem with 3.0-r0? Is it corrected in later versions
of 3.0? Or will I have to wait for sarge?
I would also be grateful for a link or hint how to download and use the
current installer - this would be a great time to help testing.
Is the current snapshot of testing already bootable?
Thanks
Ulf
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