Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I'll paste it below for your convenience:
> >
> > Problems with the debian (sarge) installer
>
> For the record, after the IRC talk we had : this was reproducible on
> 20040718 sid_d-i image
>
> I have asked Sara to try reproducing with a 2.6 install.
Still for the record : 2.6 failed too.
After this, a lot of tests....:-)
Kamion sazzle: same question to you; what does 'parted -s /dev/hda print' on
tty2 show?
Kamion er
bubulle tries to remember whether the old partitioner is on the
netinst/businesscard CD's
Kamion /dev/discs/disc0/disc I mean, not /dev/hda, sorry
Kamion bubulle: doubt it's even built any more, *fdisk may be there
sazzle Kamion: not sure, i'll have to reboot again
sazzle i'm look with knoppix atm
sazzle knoppix detects the disks
bubulle sazzle: well, if you say the partitions are there, it's OK. They *are*
there
bubulle the problem is trying to find why partman doesn't see them..:-)
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sazzle yeah
bubulle So, Kamion suggestion is interesting
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bubulle and also trying "fdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc" on tty2 may be of some
interest
joshk yawns
joshk not enough sleep
bubulle of cfdisk, I don't remember
bubulle joshk: damn...already there
gravity joshk: morning
joshk that was a Bad Idea
joshk brb
bubulle he went ot bed at 10:00UTC, I remember
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sazzle just a question, why is it to get to the 2.6 kernel in sarge, you type
linux26, but in woody to use 2.4 you had to do bf26?
sazzle er, bf24
nictuku bf = boot floopies
nictuku they don't exist anymore
sazzle ah
sazzle always wondered what bf stood for
nictuku is the current daily build of d-i safe for i386, or is it broken? (I
can't afford to download it twice..)
Kamion sazzle: 2.4 was too new to be the default in woody
Kamion sazzle: it's rock-stable now
Kamion nictuku: you could use rsync, then you don't have to download twice ...
nictuku Kamion, he meant why the "bf" string
sazzle Kamion: parted -s prints nothing
sazzle sorry
Kamion sazzle: with the other arguments?
sazzle forgot the print
Kamion right
nictuku Kamion, rsync the iso?
sazzle Kamion: disk0 is my 80Gb drive
sazzle Kamion: it prints it correctly, but that's not interesting
Kamion nictuku: sure, from cdimage.debian.org::cdimage-testing/
Kamion nictuku: look through that to find the iso you want; the structure is
the same as via http
bubulle sazzle: try "ls -l /dev/discs/disc0"
Kamion sazzle: well, disk1 or disk2 or whatever ...
sazzle Kamion: but, if i do it with disk1, it's interesting
sazzle "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk"
sazzle ..that.. explains everything doesn't it?
nictuku thanks kamion
bubulle sazzle: just to confirm, try "cfdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc"
bubulle this should bring you into the goold old partitioner
sazzle and with cfdisk, doing the same thing, I get: "FATAL ERROR: Bad
primary partition 3: Partition begins after end-of-disk"
bubulle OK...
sazzle just did
bubulle Kamion: what do you think of this? Kernel problem?
sazzle it seems like a bug in parted, not the kernel
sazzle as the kernel can read adn write to the disks
Kamion bubulle: could be a screwed-up partition table that the kernel somehow
tolerates anyway
bubulle hmmm, /me wonders whether fdisk uses parted
Kamion bubulle: I doubt it
joshk no way
joshk definitely not
bubulle I was pretty sure..:-)
bubulle so, not a parted bug
bubulle what about completely erase the partitions with something else and try
partitioning with the installer again
sazzle bubulle: i'm trying to mount the partitions
sazzle and finish the install
sazzle lets see if this works
sazzle hm
sazzle no
sazzle i mounted the first and 2nd partitions onto /target
sazzle is there a way to skip the partitioning step?
