Stew Benedict wrote:
>>Ok, I'm back on it again :). I had already brute forced this with a
>>simple $type = "dos". Now I still get a "warning: bad magic number at
>>/usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_emtpy.pm line 31." It looks like
>>this code is looking for a zero block on the drive but I don't see
>>offhand where it is called....
>>
>>BTW, it does say it found a dos partition table at sector 0, but they
>>may be simply due to my hack. I haven't read the code close enough to
>>know for sure.
>>
>
>Does that warning stop the process? I'm pretty sure I've seen that on a
>regular Apple machine too, with no ill effects.
>
Hmm...good point. It does go on (briefly). It gives the same exact
warning for /dev/sdb and also says it found a valid partition table at
sector 0 (repeat of /dev/sda msgs). Finally it says:
* error reading partition table: partitions sector #1040187392 (1TB) and
sector #815466240 (470GB) are overlapping!
These are both 2GB drives (same model). It doesn't say which drive it
couldn't read but I suspect it is back to /dev/sda again. Note that
fdisk -l /dev/sda and fdisk -l /dev/sdb show perfectly good tables.
So I ALT-F2 and manually clear both partition tables with fdisk. Then
I rebooted the installer. This time it got through and suggested some
default partitions (the log shows "solutions found: Use free space (all
solutions found: Use free space)\n* solutions: 1\nHERE: Use free space",
etc. I don't recall the sizes, but it chose a reasonable '/' and swap
size on the first drive, and gave the second drive to /home. So I went
with the defaults.
At "formatting device sdb1" it pukes. It says "warning: swap area needs
to be at least 40kB at /usr/bin/perl-install/swap.pm line 77." But I see
the 2nd drive has no partition table at all (yet) and the first drive's
partition table is corrupt. Here's what came out of fdisk -l /dev/sda
(I'm typing it in so hopefully no errors :)):
/dev/sda1 * 250407 429980 372973568 83 Linux
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(250406, 14, 1)
...and similar for endings. So we are making progress, I guess.
Perhaps an endian problem in the dos partition code??
-todd
