Bug#143151: boot-floppies: should detect 'Linux raid autodetect' as 'Linux native'
severity 143151 normal
retitle 143151 should detect 'Linux raid autodetect' and 'Linux LVM' as 'Linux
native'
thanks
> > Instead of having to switch to tty2, then set the partiion type to
> Linux native,
> > then reboot the installation process, then 'Initialize partition',
> then switch
> > to tty2 again, then change the typeback to the orginal one, an go on
> with the
> > installation, so why not instead extend a simple check to accept also
> these
> > partition types?
>
> If you repartition with cfdisk (yes, that thing in the menu), the
> partitions should be rescanned automaticaly.
Yes, that thing in the menu is also buggy then.
Following your logic; why not warn the user before the 'Next: Initialize Linux a
Linux partition' that they have to temporarily change partition types to 0x83 if
they want them be detected by dbootstrap?
(BTW, this would still be far more twisted than just simply accepting also 0xfd
and 0x83, imho)
> Do you want to fix it? If not, then don't touch it. Woody is
> probably the last release that used traditional boot-floppies.
Why not make it as perfect as possible then?
> ...or even a 'No Linux native (0x83) partition types detected' message could be
> better than the current behavior IMHO (=empty list).
> But you shoult NOT use such partitions since the type flag may confuse Linux,
> sooner or later.
lol? Sure they don't confuse Linux, either sonner or later.
Do you think they were invented just because someone had fun with it? :)
I start believing that you've never even seen such partitions, heaven forbids
not used them.
Please refer to Software-HOWTO and LVM-HOWTO documents (this latter one included
in the stock kernel Documentation tree) for their meaning and for you to clarify
this. GL! :)
Also, please refer to the Section 4 of Debian Social Contract:
"
Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software
We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software community. We
will place their interests first in our priorities. We will support the needs of
our users for operation in many different kinds of computing environment.
"
But, you are right - I agree that this bug will not render Debian woody as a
whole unusable in that computing enviromnet I am writing about.
> > Not 'Linux raid autodetect' and 'Linux LVM'.
> > I know what i am talking about, since I am just installing Debian HA clusters
>
> Okay, than you should know that your expectation is a wish, not a bug.
It is misbehavior, hence a bug.
> It is up to Adam to accept a such patch or not, IMHO. I would not.
Everyone is a uniq individual, I believe. :)
>> > Since you CAN CHANGE the partition type to Linux if you want to make
>> > dbootstrap recognise them. LVM and RAID partitions have different types
>> > for a good reason.
>>
>> Yes, and that's why it is counter-productive to change the types just for the
>> sake of installing Debian woody on them and then change it back.
>
>Well, why do you want to change them later, why? If you setup an LVM
>on this partitions, you have to reinstall the thing anyways. I just
>cannot see why you need to set this type.
Geez. Please read the relevant documentation.
I am also willing to explain this to you off-BTS, if you want. ;)
If, after that, you're still in doubt, please ask ppl developing the relevant
projects why. ;)
Best regards,
Csan
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