Hi!

When installing into my of my systems which has a 10 gigas disk I found out
a really weird thing, as the disk has 8 partitions and only one was offered
by partconf, the size of this partion was also not ok.

The disk has this partitioning:

Disk /dev/hda: 10.2 GB, 10245537792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          90      722893+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2              91         239     1196842+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3             240         259      160650   83  Linux
/dev/hda4             260        1245     7920045    5  Extended
/dev/hda5             260         276      136521   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6             277         500     1799248+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7             501         550      401593+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8             551        1245     5582556   83  Linux

In case it makes any difference, I'm pasting the view in expert mode also:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl     Start      Size ID
 1 80   1   1    0 254  63   89         63    1445787 0b
 2 00   0   1   90 254  63  238    1445850    2393685 83
 3 00   0   1  239 254  63  258    3839535     321300 83
 4 00   0   1  259 254  63 1023    4160835   15840090 05
 5 00   1   1  259 254  63  275         63     273042 82
 6 00   1   1  276 254  63  499         63    3598497 83
 7 00   1   1  500 254  63  549         63     803187 83
 8 00   1   1  550 254  63 1023         63   11165112 83

This is what partconf showed for me to choose:

IDE1 master, part. 1 9.5 GiB fat16

Well, I don't know what else to add, if you want me to gather any more info
just tell me, also if you want me to test something out.

Regards!

Hi!

I thought I had added this info, but I've looked now and I cannot see it
here, so I'm sending it "again".

Well, the thing is that I have managed to reproduce this in two more
machines, and I have gathered enough info to get the pattern that makes this
bug appear.

This bug appears on every machine where I have installed sbm as my master
boot record, it has happened on my laptop, which has a 20 gigs disk with
just two partitions, and also a 40 gigs disk with 3 partitions.

So, to be able to replicate this bug install sbm (available in Debian), into
the mbr of your hard drive and then try to use find-partitions on it.

This is what new find-partitions in sid (0.20) outputs on my laptop when run
in my installed debian (no devfs available):

/dev/hda        fat16   19 GiB
/dev/hda1               512 B
/dev/hda2               512 B

However, find-partitions in beta-2 cds (0.19) and the one in latest sid_d-i
(0.20) outputs this:

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1  fat16   19 GiB

While the partition the HD has is like this:
/dev/hda1               1        2400    19277968+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            2401        2432      257040   82  Linux swap

Hope this helps a bit.

I really believe this problem should be solved. If you cannot reproduce it
by installing sbm in your HD, just tell me and I'll try to investigate the
problem even more.

Regards...

hi!

i got also this problem and i also use smart boot manager as my boot loader. i think parted got a problem with sbm. here is my info:


muzdeb:~# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3     0   29888820 hda
   3     1    7812976 hda1
   3     2    9766008 hda2
   3     3          1 hda3
   3     4    8403192 hda4
   3     5     196024 hda5
   3     6    3710416 hda6
   3    64   80043264 hdb
   3    65          1 hdb1
   3    66    9767520 hdb2
   3    67    9767520 hdb3
   3    68   50733270 hdb4
   3    69    5124672 hdb5
   3    70     104391 hdb6
   3    71    4538331 hdb7
muzdeb:~# parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-29188,300 megabytes
Disk label type: loop
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
1          0,000  29188,300  fat16
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.


regards...

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