Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on my first SATA hard drive. Yet fdisk can read and write them without problem.
Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain damage.
On 2008/10/11 02:15 (GMT-0700) Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R composed:
Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on my first SATA hard drive. Yet fdisk can read and write them without problem.
Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain damage.
Anything like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430836 ?
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on my first SATA hard drive. Yet fdisk can read and write them without problem.
Rawhide & ubuntu use very different installers, interesting that they'd both fail.
How does anaconda fail, details?
Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain damage.
How many partitions do you have in total, if you think that's the issue?
Thanks, -Eric
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:15:51AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on my first SATA hard drive. Yet fdisk can read and write them without problem.
Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain damage.
If you have more than I think its 15 partitions you will only see the first 15 but you will get those.
But on the positive side handling for very large numbers of partitions on ATA disks went upstream yesterday 8)
2008/10/11 Alan Cox alan@redhat.com
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:15:51AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on my first SATA hard drive. Yet fdisk can read and write them without problem.
btw, is any partition using the last cylinder?
Apparently there is some limit on the number of partitions the installer's partition setup can deal with, or some other brain damage.
If you have more than I think its 15 partitions you will only see the first 15 but you will get those.
But on the positive side handling for very large numbers of partitions on ATA disks went upstream yesterday 8)
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On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 02:15 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Rawhide and Ubuntu 8.10 beta can't read the partition table on my first SATA hard drive. Yet fdisk can read and write them without problem.
What happens when you run parted against the disk?
Jeremy