On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Todd Inglett wrote:
> Stew Benedict wrote: > > >Does that warning stop the process? I'm pretty sure I've seen that on a > >regular Apple machine too, with no ill effects. > > > Hmm...good point. It does go on (briefly). It gives the same exact > warning for /dev/sdb and also says it found a valid partition table at > sector 0 (repeat of /dev/sda msgs). Finally it says: > > * error reading partition table: partitions sector #1040187392 (1TB) and > sector #815466240 (470GB) are overlapping! > > These are both 2GB drives (same model). It doesn't say which drive it > couldn't read but I suspect it is back to /dev/sda again. Note that > fdisk -l /dev/sda and fdisk -l /dev/sdb show perfectly good tables. > > So I ALT-F2 and manually clear both partition tables with fdisk. Then > I rebooted the installer. This time it got through and suggested some > default partitions (the log shows "solutions found: Use free space (all > solutions found: Use free space)\n* solutions: 1\nHERE: Use free space", > etc. I don't recall the sizes, but it chose a reasonable '/' and swap > size on the first drive, and gave the second drive to /home. So I went > with the defaults. > > At "formatting device sdb1" it pukes. It says "warning: swap area needs > to be at least 40kB at /usr/bin/perl-install/swap.pm line 77." But I see > the 2nd drive has no partition table at all (yet) and the first drive's > partition table is corrupt. Here's what came out of fdisk -l /dev/sda > (I'm typing it in so hopefully no errors :)): > > /dev/sda1 * 250407 429980 372973568 83 Linux > > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(250406, 14, 1) > > ...and similar for endings. So we are making progress, I guess. > Perhaps an endian problem in the dos partition code?? > Possibly - but I think believe I've setup fdisk'ed partition table before on PPC. I've got an external SCSI drive I think I can sacrifice - let me try something out and get back to you. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&m=99441208917647&w=
