Bug#379512: partman doesn't always guess right geometry, doesn't allow geometry to be specified

[Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@freeshell.org>]

Package: partman

Installing from the floppies here: 
testing/main/installer-i386/20060304/images/floppy/

partman doesn't always guess the correct geometry when partitioning and 
there is no valid partition table. This causes grub to fail after reboot 
on systems where the guessed geometry is not appropriate (i.e. CHS-only 
BIOSes). In my case, the correct geometry is 2100/16/63, and partman 
guesses 131/255/63 (which is the kernel's logical geometry). There is no 
way to tell partman what geometry to use. It is possible to work around by 
using fdisk to create a blank partition table with the correct geometry 
before starting partman.

partman should at least offer the choice between the kernel's physical 
and logical geometries when creating new partition tables, but the ability 
to enter a geometry would be best.

			Alexey