On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:28:29 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: > Actually the problem is (as I have pointed out in the bug report) worse > that this, because while the kernel has been updated to take note of > the HPA, the tools such as *parted have not. So if your disk has an HPA > and you try to partition it using *parted, presumably you will get what > looks like a hardware error, and it will make no sense as the sizes > reported by *parted are the physical ones, not the HPA reduced ones.
That's not the only area in which parted lags behind. On the s390 platform, parted does not recognize CMS-formatted disks, but the kernel does. (In fact, on FBA DASD, CMS-formatted disks are the *only* format the kernel supports.) The result is that an entire class of DASD devices (all FBA DASD devices) are effectively unsupported by the Debian installer, and CKD devices which are in CMS format are also unsupported. I had to come up with a rather elaborate procedure to get Debian installed on CMS-formatted disks (see http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/diag250.htm if you're interested.) I think the Debian installer itself would probably work if parted recognized the CMS disk format. It wouldn't need to have read/write capabilities (create partition, delete partition, resize partition, etc.). All it needs to be able to do is to recognize the partition and report its size correctly. I think the Debian installer could probably handle things from there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/401388077.17005041267804676172.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com