reassign libparted1.7-1 1.7.1-5.1 thanks On Monday 05 November 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > I attached the hardware-summary to this mail to be more complete. My > machine is a bi-G5 powermac with a new 500 Gb hard drive that contains a > fresh OS X (10.4) installation and a lot of free space to do some real > work with Debian. > > I tested with a Ubuntu 6.10 live, because I am not aware of a Debian live > CD which boots on G5 machines. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# parted /dev/sda > GNU Parted 1.7.1
Good. Same version of parted we have in Debian. > Using /dev/sda > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. > (parted) print > Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition. > Ignore/Cancel? i This error must be what's causing partman to not recognize the disk. > Disk /dev/sda: 500GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: mac > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 0.51kB 32.8kB 32.3kB primary > 3 457GB 457GB 134MB hfs+ primary > 4 457GB 500GB 42.7GB hfsx primary > > It seems that something in this partition table makes parted > uncomfortable... OK. That clearly makes it an issue the libparted maintainers should look at. However, it may very well be that the parted maintainers will need help from a powerpc porter to trace and resolve this issue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
