Bug#284996: Sarge partition before and after

Greetings,     The two hexdumps below show the mbr before and after the Sarge installer partitions the drive. The "after" partition is garbled in a suprisingly orderly way (some columns are filled with alternating hex values). The partitioner (and cfdisk 2.12) can read the partition, but wri

Bug#284996: Looking for a "Sanity Check"

27;55AA' (which I believe marks the end of the partition table for a bootable partition).     So my question to the list is; Is it OK to use the above-mentioned cat-hexdump-morecommand, or am I deceiving myself somehow? TIA,     Steve Kleiser

Bug#284996: Some follow-up to #284996

  Some follow up;  Suspecting the problem might be caused by the drive, and since the hard drive is easily changed on this laptop model, I removed the 8GB drive and replaced it with a Toshiba MToshiba MK2101MAN 2.1GB 2.1GB. The same symptoms persist with the MK2101MAN. The laptop was booted using a

Bug#284996: Sarge installation fails at partitioning on laptop

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Sarge_RC2 sarge-i386-1.iso uname -a: Linux Royal 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i586 unknown Date: 12-8-04 8:50 PM Method: Tried Enter at boot prompt, also Linux26 booted from CD-R No network hardware installedMachine: Royal (