Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:57:30PM +0100, Eugenia Franzoni wrote: Could you please try creating, not a pc98, but a plain msdos disklabel (mklabel msdos), and try again, and tell us how it does work out ? That solved it. :) BTW, could you tell me how it cames that originally you tried a

Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-24 Thread Eugenia Franzoni
BTW, could you tell me how it cames that originally you tried a pc98 disklabel ? Did you choose it by yourself in parted, or did some d-i tool try to add it ? Or maybe your disk had already a pc98 partition on it ? It was the default parted showed me when I used mklabel, so I think the disk

Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:19:13PM +0100, Eugenia Franzoni wrote: BTW, could you tell me how it cames that originally you tried a pc98 disklabel ? Did you choose it by yourself in parted, or did some d-i tool try to add it ? Or maybe your disk had already a pc98 partition on it ? It was

Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-24 Thread Eugenia Franzoni
The question to know here, is if what you saw was the result of a mistake of yours (choosing pc98 instead of msdos), or because your disk was already formatted in pc98 modus. If this is so, we can close this bug report. If on the other hand, the presence of a pc98 partition table is due to

Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-21 Thread Eugenia Franzoni
Package: debian-installer Version: 20040120 I downloaded the Sarge Net installer from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/20040120/sarge-i386-netinst.iso The computer I tried it on has 2 disks (hda and hdb). I tried the installationon hdb. The partitioning went ok, the disk is

Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:54:55PM +0100, Eugenia Franzoni wrote: Package: debian-installer Version: 20040120 I downloaded the Sarge Net installer from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/20040120/sarge-i386-netinst.iso The computer I tried it on has 2 disks (hda and hdb). I

Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-21 Thread Eugenia Franzoni
Accessing them manually (i.e. mkswap on the first partition and mke2fs on the second, via the console in F2) was successful. Even after creating the filesystem, the partitions are not listed in configure and mount partitions Do these partitions overlap in the partition table? Is this a BSD

Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
reassign 228870 libparted1.6-udeb thanks On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:22:59PM +0100, Eugenia Franzoni wrote: Accessing them manually (i.e. mkswap on the first partition and mke2fs on the second, via the console in F2) was successful. Even after creating the filesystem, the partitions are not

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2004-01-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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