Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:41 +0000
with message-id <e1otbo1-00067l...@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing old installation report #260225
has caused the Debian Bug report #260225,
regarding Sarge installer not recognising partition table for disk larger than
137GB
to be marked as done.
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package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040718/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux swish 2.4.26-1-386 #2 Sat May 1 16:31:24 EST 2004
i686 unkown
Date: Mon Jul 19 22:29:13 EST 2004
Method: downloaded image from above website, and ran the installer
Machine: desktop
Processor: athlonXP 1.6Ghz
Memory: 256Mb
Root Device: IDE seagate (x2)
Root Size/partition table: see description
-ommited check boxes-
I have detailed my problem at:
<http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~saraf/debian-install.html>
I'll paste it below for your convenience:
Problems with the debian (sarge) installer
I have a new 160Gb hard disk. I wanted to put debian on the first
20GB of it (8GB /home, 12GB /), and have the rest as a big fat32
partition for backup purposes. I first tried using the sarge
installer, and found it couldn't see more than 137GB of my 160GB
drive, but I went ahead and partitioned anyway. I finished the base
install, putting grub in (hd1,0).
I have another disk in the computer which has FreeBSD and
windows-XP on it. The FreeBSD loader was unable to boot from
(hd1,0). It told me to "PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT" when i choose that
disk.
I thought I'd start the process again, this time putting grub in
the MBR of hd1. Before I did so, I booted into windows, and had a
look at the partition table. It was as the debian installer had
made it. I took the opportunity to format the 20GB at the end of
the disk as a fat32 partition. I then rebooted, and inserted the
sarge installer disk again.
When I got to the partitioning section of the install process
again, I noticed that the installer couldn't read my partition
table at all. It just showed a 137Gb disk that was all Free Space.
To verify things, I booted into windows again, and the partition
table was fine. This is where I'm at now.
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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