Re: Issue mounting partitions
* Michael Opdenacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-15 18:56]: | 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? sorry, for the long delay. please report a bug against the libparted (or maybe parted) package. I think this isn't a problem of partconf. Thanks Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Issue mounting partitions
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 = [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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issue mounting partitions
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 -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Issue mounting partitions
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. -- Michael Opdenacker [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://michaelo.free.fr Computers are like air conditioners They stop working properly when you open Windows GnuPG Key fingerprint: 978E 71D7 3172 7E9D EB01 BB89 F0E0 0860 003E D701 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issue mounting partitions
Michael Opdenacker wrote: > 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 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. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Issue mounting partitions
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. -- Michael Opdenacker [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://michaelo.free.fr Computers are like air conditioners They stop working properly when you open Windows GnuPG Key fingerprint: 978E 71D7 3172 7E9D EB01 BB89 F0E0 0860 003E D701 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]