On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:45:51AM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 11:32, you wrote: > > > I partitioned the hard disk from OS X Installer's Disk Utility, basically > > > creating a 18GB HFS+ partition at the end of the disk for MacOS X and > > > leaving the rest of the disk free. > > > > > > The installer completely failed to detect the partitions, and only > > > offered me to repartition my whole hard disk again. > > > > this is very strange and should not have happened. Can you now that you > > have the installed system, try to run parted on it, and see what it reports > > (use only the print command of parted). if parted doesn't show the right > > thing, could you file a bug report against parted, and append the first few > > sectors of your disk (dd if=/dev/hda of=file_for_parted count=64) ? > > > > If it shows this correctly in parted, then there is something horribly > > wrong with partman. > I've got this: > > sweetie# parted /dev/hda print > Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition. > Ignore/Cancel? i > Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 80GB > Disk label type: mac > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 1kB 32kB 32kB Apple > 2 33kB 851kB 819kB hfs bootstrap boot > 3 852kB 1075MB 1074MB linux-swap swap > 4 1075MB 60GB 59GB ext3 root root > 5 60GB 60GB 134MB hfs+ eXternal booter > 6 60GB 80GB 20GB hfsx Apple_HFSX_Untitled_1 > Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. > > as you see it gets an error, but it can continue if I ignore it, may be > partman is not "ignoring" that error (which I don't know how severe is), > and returns nothing
Ok, this clarifies it. Can you provide us with a snapshot of the start of your disk, as mentioned above, and i will then clone the bug and reassign it to partman and parted, as i believe both have a problem here. Mmm, wait, you did not do some resizing or something such ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]