Re: bug detected with knoppix 3.7

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Pierre,

Parted 1.6.11 is rather old.  Lots of work has been done to address the
issues you encountered since then.

Thanks for the report,
Andrew

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:36:09PM +0100, Pierre Parraud wrote:
>    Please find the following error during install process of knoppix 3.7 with
>    the following commands ;
>     
>    boot: knoppix lang=fr
>     
>    open a terminal window, then:
>     
> 
>    address@hidden su
> 
>    address@hidden knx2hd
> 
>    Disk /dev/hdd doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
>    Warning: The partition table on /dev/hdd is inconsistent. There are many
>    reaso
> 
>    ns why this might be the case. Often, the reason is that Linux detected
>    the BI
> 
>    OS geometry incorrectly. However, this does not appear to be the case
>    here. I
> 
>    t is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some
>    boot lo
> 
>    aders, and may cause problems with FAT file systems. Using LBA is
>    recommended.
> 
>    Error: Could not detect file system.
> 
>    Error: Could not detect file system.
> 
>    Error: Could not detect file system.
> 
>    Error: Could not detect file system.
> 
>    Warning: The partition table on /dev/hdd is inconsistent. There are many
>    reasons why this might be the case. Often, the reason is that Linux
>    detected the BIOS geometry incorrectly. However, this does not appear to
>    be the case here. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable)
>    problems with some boot loaders, and may cause problems with FAT file
>    systems. Using LBA is recommended.
> 
>    Error: Could not detect file system.
> 
>    Error: Could not detect file system.
> 
>    Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/hdd - wrong signature 0
> 
>    A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report to
>    address@hidden containing the version (1.6.11) and the following
>    message:Assertion (old_disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:195 in
>    function ped_disk_duplicate() failed.
> 
>    A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report to
>    address@hidden containing the version (1.6.11) and the following
>    message:Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1037 in
>    function ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
> 
>    A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report to
>    address@hidden containing the version (1.6.11) and the following
>    message:Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1037 in
>    function ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
> 
>     
> 
>    impossible to create a new partition table and to format disk. Hard drive
>    is a 20 GB Maxtor drive IDE, slave second map, Hdd.
> 
>    the test before this one was unsuccessfull because an other error:
> 
>    warning, unable to aligne partition properly .This .....
> 
>     
> 
>    then i proceed a low level format....with a floppy boot disk of maxtor , 3
>    hours....but no result.
> 
>     
> 
>    If you have the smallest idea, please send me back your solution, knoppix
>    seems a so good product.
> 
>    regards
> 
>     
> 
>    Pierre Parraud
> 
>    good  
> 
>     

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