> -----Original Message----- > From: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:04 PM > To: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > 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.
Geometry reported by what? fdisk -l? I could boot Knoppix once with kernel 2.4, once with 2.6, and invoke fdisk -l /dev/hda each time. Would that be what you need? > 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. You mean, the fix will not make it into sarge? This would mean sarge will not be installable on a certain number of machines?? I can hardly imagine that... Best regards, Matthias Zenker > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther >
