Hi Gunnar, Thanks a lot for you report and investigations. I think that now I have enough information to fix the installer for Sun disk labels.
1. Linux and parted support up to 7 partitions (8 with the whole disk partition). Indeed, this is not going to be changed. 2. However the problem is that you discovered an unknown bug in the support of sun disk labels in libparted. Namely when libparted creates a new empty Sun disk label, no partition can be added to it. In order to edit the partition table one has to write it to the disk and then reopen it. This bug can not be detected with parted because parted always writes the new partition table to the disk and reopens it for the consecutive editing commands. On 10.III.2004 at 09:21 Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > In /var/log/partman, I got: > > > (...) > > > parted_server: OUT: 8 21607686144-22032207359 424521216 primary ext3 > > > /dev/scsi/host 1/bus0/target3/lun0/part8 > > > parted_server: OUT: -1 22032207360-36417116159 14384908800 primary > > > free /dev/scsi/host 1/bus0/target3/lun0/part-1 > > > > > > The problem seems to be parted (or one of the d-i modules) not being > > > able to see beyond three bits worth of partitions :( > > > > I can not guess what is wrong wrong in the log? > > After the eight partition (/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target3/lun0/part8 - > Excuse me for the extra spaces in what I pasted, blame my terminal) > was created, the next partition that parted tries to create is > /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target3/lun0/part-1 - This seems like an overflow > for a signed three-bit value. (now, why would it be signed? :-/ ) No this is OK -- parted gives number -1 to all free spaces. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
