Bug#246841: qualified success on iBook G4

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Il sab, 2004-05-01 alle 19:40, Jonathan Matthew ha scritto:
[...]
> I chose manual partitioning in order to leave some space for a certain
> proprietary operating system.  Partitioning itself worked well, but
> when exiting the partitioner, it refused to believe that I'd created
> the bootstrap partition.  I messed around with the size a bit, but it 
> didn't help. I tried creating the bootstrap partition using mac-fdisk, 
> and that didn't work either.  I eventually ignored the warning and 
> carried on.  The message I was getting here was 
> partman-newworld/no_newworld, not partman-newworld/wrong_size.
> 
> I don't know if it's possible to do this check inside the partition 
> editor, so you don't need to write the partition table to disk before 
> you find out you've got to go back and fix it, but that'd be nice.
> 
> When installing the boot loader, the same message appeared.  I started
> a shell, chrooted into /target, mounted /proc, ran ybin, and it worked.
> 
> Those things aside, everything worked fine.  
[...]

I believe this is the same as #244957 so I think that beta4 is
uninstallable on any newworld machine. :-(

Bye,
Giuseppe