Bug#32269: partion harddisk fails if WIN95_EXTENDED present

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

reassign 32269 util-linux
stop

On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:54:19AM +0100, Michael Taeschner wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 2.1.5
> Severity: grave
> 
> Trying to install by rescue-floppy on a new x86 with Win9X preformatted
> harddisk fails:
> 
> Menu Partion hard disk gives:
> 
> FATAL ERROR: bad primary partition
> 
> which is identical to what cfdisk -P /dev/hda says.
> It offers then to use cfdisk -z, since parttable may be corrupt or factory
> clean, which is wrong. The reason seems to be, that cfdisk v0.8j
> does not know about the new Win95 OSR2 (LBA) partition types, here 0x0f
> being WIN95_EXTENDED (LBA). According to bug report #21779-done this is
> fixed in cfdisk v0.8l included in util-linux_2.9g-1.

But util-linux_2.9g-1 was uploaded to unstable, not to slink. We need
that fix backported or util-linux_2.9 moved to slink, ASAP.

	Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es