Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure

2004-12-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:43:35PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:28, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > Notice that hda7 and hda8 start before the end of hda6. This partition > > table is broken (some partitioning tools are making such partition > > tables) and in order to be sa

Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure

2004-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:28, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Notice that hda7 and hda8 start before the end of hda6. This partition > table is broken (some partitioning tools are making such partition > tables) and in order to be safe the partitioning program of the > installer refuses to work with

Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure

2004-12-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:04:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 2349 17758408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # WIN XP > /dev/hda2 4695 5168 3583440 41 PPC PReP Boot # IBM > system parti

RE: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > > Probably. Also, could you get the info from dmesg which > looks like : > > > > > > hda: 312581808 sectors (160041

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > I would much rather upload to sid, and let it go in hinted, but i suppose > t-p-u is the way to go, i never was able to do so in the past though, and the > 1.6.9-3.2 upload Matt tried also failed. parted | 1.6.9-3.2 | testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64,

RE: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
o: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart) > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > > > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
AIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:13:08PM +0200, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > &

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:41:10AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > This should be fixed in 1.6.12 for which i am preparing packages, but it > > breaks binary compatibility, so using this is a no-go for sarge as i > > understand, as parted is part of base, which was frozen by start

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > This should be fixed in 1.6.12 for which i am preparing packages, but it > breaks binary compatibility, so using this is a no-go for sarge as i > understand, as parted is part of base, which was frozen by start of august. It can probably be argued that this is a release critic

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
AIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:00:00PM +0200, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Could you provide the reported

RE: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
> -Original Message- > From: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:38 PM > To: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge:

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:00:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could you provide the reported geometry on both a 2.4 kernel > > and a 2.6 kernel ? This is probably the infamous 2.6 geometry > > bug/feature/whatver. > > Geometry reported by what? fdisk -l? > I could boot Knoppix once with

RE: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
o: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart) > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > > > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:12:41AM +

RE: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
> -Original Message- > From: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:22 PM > To: Zenker, Matthias (Otometrics Stuttgart) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > debian-installer

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
> > Subject: Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: > > debian-installer partitioning failure] > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:12:41AM +0200, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have just lear

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:12:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have just learnt that the bug I encountered when trying to install Sarge is known > under #242114 (Finds no > partition table on a disk with partition table recognisable by fdisk), and is 148 > (!!) days old. Is ther

Re: Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
Hi, I just have learnt from the bug report pages that the bug I encountered was also reported in Bug #247108: Doesn't see existing partition table and closed. But the bug is still there! In the meantime, I also have tried with rc1, but I found exactly the same behaviour: the partition manager j

Status of Bug ##242114 ? [Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure]

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
Hi, I have just learnt that the bug I encountered when trying to install Sarge is known under #242114 (Finds no partition table on a disk with partition table recognisable by fdisk), and is 148 (!!) days old. Is there a means to find out what the status is, and when a fix can be expected? Tha

Re: Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure

2004-08-31 Thread mzenker
New information: When starting the shell, it claims that hard disks are mounted under /target. But such a directory does not exist. The hard disk is detected - but under /dev/discs/disc0/disc. Issuing ln -s /dev/discs/disc0/disc /dev/hda makes fdisk recognize the partition table. But the parti