[ros-general] ROS installer scribbled over my ext2 partition :-(

Mon Apr 25 14:27:59 UTC 2005

Hi,

I decided to give 0.2.6 another try on my hardware and tried to install
it into a small fat32 partition (4th primary partition). The repartition
program did not recognize too much of my partition structure but since I
did not plan to change any partition I was not alert.

Then I formatted the partition (simply using the existing fat fs did not
work at all) and that did not work either. Unfortunately another
partition was affected (it killed the root directory of my i386 (=32bit)
linux partition /dev/hda6). I did not find any valuable data lost so far
(after reconstructing the filesystem) ...

To spare other users this unpleasant experience I would love to
investigate this problem a bit further:

fdisk -l gives me:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         914     7341673+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2             915        4743    30756442+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            4744        7175    19535040    5  Extended
/dev/hda4            7176        7296      971932+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5            4744        4865      979933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            4866        7175    18555043+  83  Linux

And the ROS installer recognizes:
19077MB unpartitioned space
 7170MB NTFS C:
17592186024390MB unpartitioned space
957MB --- T 130
18120MB --- T 131 D:
949MB unpartitioned space

so it looks really confused.

Hardware: Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo 1630 AMD64 3700+

   Christof

PS: I was unable to start the system I copied from a qemu installation
over to the partition via grub+freeloader (no error output at all). So I
suspect that not only the installer is buggy.

PPS: My partition table in hex:

Device: /dev/hda
0x000: EB 48 90 D0 BC 00 7C FB 50 07 50 1F FC BE 1B 7C
0x010: BF 1B 06 50 57 B9 E5 01 F3 A4 CB BD BE 07 B1 04
0x020: 38 6E 00 7C 09 75 13 83 C5 10 E2 F4 CD 18 8B F5
0x030: 83 C6 10 49 74 19 38 2C 74 F6 A0 B5 07 B4 03 02
0x040: FF 00 00 20 01 00 00 00 00 02 FA 80 CA 80 EA 53
0x050: 7C 00 00 31 C0 8E D8 8E D0 BC 00 20 FB A0 40 7C
0x060: 3C FF 74 02 88 C2 52 BE 79 7D E8 34 01 F6 C2 80
0x070: 74 54 B4 41 BB AA 55 CD 13 5A 52 72 49 81 FB 55
0x080: AA 75 43 A0 41 7C 84 C0 75 05 83 E1 01 74 37 66
0x090: 8B 4C 10 BE 05 7C C6 44 FF 01 66 8B 1E 44 7C C7
0x0A0: 04 10 00 C7 44 02 01 00 66 89 5C 08 C7 44 06 00
0x0B0: 70 66 31 C0 89 44 04 66 89 44 0C B4 42 CD 13 72
0x0C0: 05 BB 00 70 EB 7D B4 08 CD 13 73 0A F6 C2 80 0F
0x0D0: 84 F0 00 E9 8D 00 BE 05 7C C6 44 FF 00 66 31 C0
0x0E0: 88 F0 40 66 89 44 04 31 D2 88 CA C1 E2 02 88 E8
0x0F0: 88 F4 40 89 44 08 31 C0 88 D0 C0 E8 02 66 89 04
0x100: 66 A1 44 7C 66 31 D2 66 F7 34 88 54 0A 66 31 D2
0x110: 66 F7 74 04 88 54 0B 89 44 0C 3B 44 08 7D 3C 8A
0x120: 54 0D C0 E2 06 8A 4C 0A FE C1 08 D1 8A 6C 0C 5A
0x130: 8A 74 0B BB 00 70 8E C3 31 DB B8 01 02 CD 13 72
0x140: 2A 8C C3 8E 06 48 7C 60 1E B9 00 01 8E DB 31 F6
0x150: 31 FF FC F3 A5 1F 61 FF 26 42 7C BE 7F 7D E8 40
0x160: 00 EB 0E BE 84 7D E8 38 00 EB 06 BE 8E 7D E8 30
0x170: 00 BE 93 7D E8 2A 00 EB FE 47 52 55 42 20 00 47
0x180: 65 6F 6D 00 48 61 72 64 20 44 69 73 6B 00 52 65
0x190: 61 64 00 20 45 72 72 6F 72 00 BB 01 00 B4 0E CD
0x1A0: 10 AC 3C 00 75 F4 C3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FB 0E 2B 6A F6 F6 80 01
0x1C0: 01 00 07 FE FF 91 3F 00 00 00 D3 0C E0 00 00 00
0x1D0: C1 92 83 FE FF FF 12 0D E0 00 B5 9C AA 03 00 FE
0x1E0: FF FF 05 FE FF FF C7 A9 8A 04 80 29 54 02 00 FE
0x1F0: FF FF 0B FE FF FF 47 D3 DE 06 39 A9 1D 00 55 AA

0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FE
0x1C0: FF FF 82 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 BB E7 1D 00 00 FE
0x1D0: FF FF 05 FE FF FF FA E7 1D 00 86 41 36 02 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA

0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FE
0x1C0: FF FF 83 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 47 41 36 02 00 00
0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA