Strange behaviour with setup_harddisks

[Cyril Bouthors]

On a new server with one single 80GB S-ATA hard disk, sfdisk through
setup_harddisks fails. I've reproduced it with the following:

root at web16:/tmp# sfdisk /dev/hda </tmp/fai/partition.hda
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK

Disk /dev/hda: 9964 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1          0+     24      25-    200781   83  Linux
/dev/hda2         25     268     244    1959930   83  Linux
/dev/hda3        269    9963    9695   77875087+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
Warning: given size (266068530) exceeds max allowable size (157597650)

sfdisk: bad input
root at web16:/tmp# echo $?
1

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/tmp/fai/partition.hda is wrong and I guess it's a bug with
setup_harddisks.  The FAI installation fails because of that.  Here
are other important information you might need:

root at web16:/tmp# cat /tmp/fai/partition.hda
# partition table of device: /dev/hda
unit: sectors

/dev/hda1 : start=        63, size=    417627, Id=   , bootable
/dev/hda2 : start=    417690, size=   2056320, Id= 82
/dev/hda3 : start=   2474010, size= 266068530, Id=   
root at web16:/tmp# cat /fai/disk_config/WEB_PARTITIONS_IDE
# for more information, have a look at /usr/share/doc/fai/README.disk_config.gz

# <type> <mountpoint> <size in mb> [mount options]     [;extra options]

disk_config hda
primary  /boot         200         rw                   ;boot xfs
primary  swap          1000        rw
primary  /             1000-       rw                   ;xfs
root at web16:/tmp# sfdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 9964 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1          0+     24      25-    200781   83  Linux
/dev/hda2         25     268     244    1959930   83  Linux
/dev/hda3        269    9963    9695   77875087+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
root at web16:/tmp# 

Do you think it can be fixed?

Thanks
-- 
Cyril Bouthors
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