[Parted-maintainers] Bug#286534: Installer fails to read partition table.

[Anton Zinoviev]

reassign 286534 partman
severity 286534 critical
retitle 286534 [MERGED] Finds no partition table on disk with unaligned partitions
merge 242114 286534
thanks

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:25:50AM -0500, Eric Carlsen wrote:
> I don't know if anyone is listening or if I'm annoying people with bugs
> they're alread aware

The bug reports are always usefull even when they are annoying. :-)

> of but it appears that this bug has already been
> reported. I just found it as bug #242114.

Yes, at least to me this seams as the same bug.

> I also notice that when I use a newer
> version of parted (1.6.9) in knoppix it still
> complains about the disk size but it does print out the partitions
> correctly. When I tried to go to a console using the debian installer
> and run parted it wouldn't show the partition table at all, it just
> complained about the overlapping partitions. I noticed that the bug

So debian installer has to wait for the new version of parted.  It uses
the library of parted in order to edit the partition table.  Thanks.

Anton Zinoviev