On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:02:52PM -0300, Khristian Alexander Schönrock wrote: > I'm trying to install lenny on my machine (tried both amd64 and i386), > but the installer won't recognize the partitions on my HD. I tried to > boot with the rescue option, and found out that it does find the > partitions, but for some reason doesn't show it on the selection screen > (it simply shows my disk as 250GB of unpartitioned space).
This suggests that the kernel recognised your partition table, but that libparted failed to do so. Could you file a bug on the parted package repeating your description of the problem and including the output of the following command, run as root, which will give us a hex dump of your boot sector including the partition table: od -Ax -tx1 -N512 /dev/sda Replace "/dev/sda" with the device name of your disk (might be /dev/hda instead). I'm assuming that you can get some Unix-based operating system up far enough to run the above. > Going through the log messages of the installer, I've found an > interesting line: > "main-menu[1441]: INFO: menu item 'partman-base' succeeded but requested > to be left uncofigured" That just means "failed". > I don't if this has anything to do with the problem, but after some > fiddling with the command-line I've found that partmap does know there > are partitions on the disk, and partman crashes if ran after running > part*_server (can't remember the whole command now :/ ). partmap just tells you the type of the partition table, not whether it could understand its contents. partman is not meant to be runnable from the command line. Regards, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
