On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:43:47PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi! > > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:44:16PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > > It still is broken for some disks: > > > > > > > > (CMD) parted -s /dev/sdb unit TiB print 1> /tmp/h7McmrDIeR 2> > > > > /tmp/bnYHpUowLU > > > > Executing: parted -s /dev/sdb unit TiB print > > > > Command parted -s /dev/sdb unit TiB print had exit code 1 > > > > Parted was unable to read the partition table > > > > (STDOUT) No Implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder > > > > boundaries. This is still unsupported. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Is this supposed to be a brand new/blank disk, or what has happended to > > > that one > > > before? I didn't expect this error to occur at that stage, so it's > > > currently not > > > handled by setup-storage. Did you see it on a single disk only, or > > > multiple > > > times? > > > > It was a used disk and I don't know how it got formatted this way, > > but IMHO when the config tells setup-storage to write a new disklabel, > > which will erase all existing partition information anyhow, you > > shouldn't try to read anything at all from that disk beforehand. > > This should finally be fixed in 3.2.17+experimental1. It would be great if you > could try that one, but probably you don't have a disk with a bad > configuration > anymore :-)
I came across another old machine recently and the installation went through fine, so yes, seems to be fixed.
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