On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:19:56PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi! > > [...] > > > > As disk-config, we are using: > > disk_config disk1 > > primary /boot/ 10-100 ; boot > > primary - preserve2 > > logical / 9000-14000 rw,errors=remount-ro ; -j ext3 > > logical swap 400-600 rw > > logical - preserve7 > > > > >From that, the following partition.hda - file is created: > > > > unit: sectors > > > > /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 79569, Id= 83, bootable > > /dev/hda2 : start= 80325, size= 20482875, Id= c > > /dev/hda3 : start= 20563200, size= 57560895, Id= 5 > > /dev/hda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 > > /dev/hda5 : start= 20563263, size= 20635713, Id= 83 > > /dev/hda6 : start= 41199039, size= 907137, Id= 82 > > /dev/hda7 : start= 42106428, size= 36017667, Id= c > > > > which looks quite reasonable - except may bo for the partition /dev/hda4? > > > Hmm, yes. I don't know whether this is a bug in setup_harddisks or some > problem > with your prior partitioning. To rule out the former, could you try adding > another primary partition (maybe as small as 16MB, just for the sake of > debugging this? It shouldn't affect the 7th partition). Sorry, that's not so easy - thanks to our special hardware to protect the Hard-disks in Win98 I can't create hda4 without destroying the logical partitions ... > > > > > But setup_harddisks seems to have a problem with that: > > > > Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q /dev/hda < > > /tmp/fai/partition.hda > > Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > > for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 77504/16/63). > > For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > > > [...] > > Well, this might be the other possible cause: sfdisk might be confused about > the > geometry; usually, this requires adding the --force option to sfdisk (by > adding > export sfdisk="--force" to an appropriate .var file in class/). "--force" didn't change anything for our problem.
Thank you for your remarks and proposals - we decided to take the "safest" way: creating a hook to switch of the partitioning completely. Like that, everything is working fine. Axel
