Re: Issue mounting partitions

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Opdenacker 
Hi Thorsten,

Good guess!
parted (1.6.6) has trouble accessing my partitions. I may be parted's 
fault, as fdisk doesn't complain at all.

See the below output I got from Mandrake GNU/Linux 9.2...

Do you think I should report a bug on Partconf, or directly to the GNU 
Parted people?

Cheers,

Michael

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# parted
GNU Parted 1.6.6
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software 
Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See 
the GNU General Public License for more
details.

Using /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Error: Unable to open /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc - 
unrecognised disk label.
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on 
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc is 1023/64/32.
(parted) print
Error: Unable to open /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc - 
unrecognised disk label.
(parted) quit
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# parted /dev/hda print
Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that 
another partitioning tool generated an
incorrect partition table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS 
geometry.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may
cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore/Cancel? C
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4864.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   * 1   783   6289416   83  Linux
/dev/hda2   784  2467  135267305  Extended
/dev/hda3   914  1703   6345675   83  Linux
/dev/hda4  2468  4864  19253871   83  Linux
/dev/hda5   784   913   1044193+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6  1704  2467   6136798+  83  Linux

Hi Michael,

* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 23:18]:
| Thanks for going to the trouble to take photos of it and put them up on
| the web.
do you think it's possible to try to configure your partitions with
parted? Either during the debian-installer or in your real system.
Partconf highly depends on parted (any the underlaying libraries) so
it's maybe a bug in parted.
Thanks for your great help,
Thorsten
 



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Re: Issue mounting partitions

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Opdenacker 
Hi Joe!

Thank you very much for your quick answer!

I'll file a bug on the partconf package as you suggested. I'm not in a 
hurry and I'll be happy if this helps the Debian project.

Cheers,

Michael

Thanks for going to the trouble to take photos of it and put them up on
the web.
It seems to me that the part of the installer known as partconf is not
seeing your partitions, while an earlier part is. Since these parts use
different underlying technologies, this is at least possible, though
it's not a common problem.
I think you need to get a dump of your partition table in the
appropriate form and submit it as a bug against the partconf package.
Not knowing much about partitions myself I'll leave the details to
someone else.
 

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Issue mounting partitions

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Opdenacker 
Hello,

I'm a Debian newbie, so my issue may be trivial...

I'm trying to install the "testing" version by making a net install with 
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso 
(Nov 9, 2003).

Booting starts fine, but I can't find any place to bind mount points to 
my partitions. Here's what I did:

  1. Selected the hard drive to partition: see
 http://michaelo.free.fr/issues/nov11_2003/1.jpg
  2. My existing partitions were recognized with no issue, but I didn't
 find any way to attach a label/mount point to any of them! See
 http://michaelo.free.fr/issues/nov11_2003/2.jpg
  3. I selected "Quit" (because I didn't have to make any change) and
 selected "Finish" in the next dialog. See
 http://michaelo.free.fr/issues/nov11_2003/3.jpg
  4. The installer complains that no partitions were found:
 http://michaelo.free.fr/issues/nov11_2003/4.jpg
  5. In the main menu, if I chose "Configure and mount partitions",
 nothing happens... I'm still in the main menu:
 http://michaelo.free.fr/issues/nov11_2003/5.jpg
Did I miss anything, or could there be an issue in this testing version 
of the installer?

Thank you in advance for any help. Don't hesitate to ask me more questions.

Cheers,

   Michael.

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