Bug#413065: Debian Installer doesn't change partition types

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 298042 partman-base
reassign 413065 partman-base
forcemerge 413065 298042
severity 413065 important
thanks

On Friday 02 March 2007 00:49, Mohammed Hagag wrote:
> when installing debian testing [ 2 monthes old version ] and formating
> non-linux partitions to be the root / the installer doesn't convert
> the partition type to Linux and grub will not install if the target
> partition was NTFS for example.

This is a known issue: #298042 and I suspect there's a few other reports 
like that floating around. However, I don't really blame you for not 
finding them :-)

Reassigning and increasing severity so this issue will hopefully get a bit 
more attention.

Thanks for reporting.

Cheers,
FJP