On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:44:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:22 PM > > To: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart) > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:12:41AM +0200, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have just learnt that the bug I encountered when trying > > to install > > > Sarge is known under #242114 (Finds no > > > partition table on a disk with partition table recognisable > > by fdisk), and is 148 (!!) days old. Is there a means > > > to find out what the status is, and when a fix can be expected? > > > > What kernel where you using, and what did you use ot create > > that partition table ? > > I was using the installer with kernel 2.6.7-1-386 (that is what uname -a > says in the installer shell - for additional info see also my initial > installation report entitled "Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer > partitioning failure"). > The initial partition table was probably generated by some version of > parted, namely the one used by the SUSE Linux professional 9.0 installer > (but I'm not sure, I didn't install SUSE myself). I modified it with > YAST2 first (I think that YAST2 uses parted, but again I'm not sure), > but that failed probably since I tried it from the running system. I > then used a Knoppix 3.4 CD with kernel 2.4.23-xfs and fixed the > partition with fdisk 2.12.
Could you provide the reported geometry on both a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6 kernel ? This is probably the infamous 2.6 geometry bug/feature/whatver. This should be fixed in 1.6.12 for which i am preparing packages, but it breaks binary compatibility, so using this is a no-go for sarge as i understand, as parted is part of base, which was frozen by start of august. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
