[Parted-maintainers] Bug#443272: Possible workaround (was: Partition not detected on a ST3500630AS Seagate 500 Go drive)

[Charles Plessy]

Dear parted maintainers,

I finally re-tried to install Debian on this computer, with the two
following differences:

 - After first re-installing OS X, I did not install the updates from
   Apple.
 - I created two 50 Go partitions at the beginning of the drive instead
   of a very big one for Linux and a small one for OS X at the end of
   the drive.

Either one or the other change was useful: D-I managed to detect the
OS X partitions, and I could install Debian.

Since it is a computer at work, I will not be able to do further tests
with it.

Just in case it helps, here is the output of mac-fdisk:

Command (? for help): p
/dev/sda
        #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
/dev/sda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sda2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                1954 @ 64        (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Debian             105117790 @ 2018      ( 50.1G)  Linux native
/dev/sda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Home               761718751 @ 209715264 (363.2G)  Linux native
/dev/sda5               Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 104595456 @ 105119808 ( 49.9G)  HFS
/dev/sda6         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 5339153 @ 971434015 (  2.5G)  Linux swap

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=976773168
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles