Bug#143151: boot-floppies: should detect 'Linux raid autodetect' as 'Linux native'
severity 143151 wishlist
retitle 143151 could consider 'Linux raid autodetect' and 'Linux LVM' partitions as target types
thanks
#include <hallo.h>
Csan (Ja'nos Hola'nyi) wrote on Wed Apr 17, 2002 um 04:59:27PM:
> > 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.
How buggy? Where is you report about a "bug"?
> 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?
Normal users do not use wrong types for the target partition. Dbootstrap does not handle LVM or Raid. So it is even
better to not offer these partition as potential target partitions.
> (BTW, this would still be far more twisted than just simply accepting also 0xfd
> and 0x83, imho)
Why? Such situation is _very_ exotic. People that use LVM or RAID now
what they are doing. Others use Linux as default.
> > 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?
Since you do not ask for perfectness, but an exeption for a very strange
situation.
> > 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? :)
Nope, they are used by md-driver (or vgscan) to recognise them as
possible Raid/LVM partition.
> I start believing that you've never even seen such partitions, heaven forbids
> not used them.
Blah. Make some recherches before making dumb presumptions about my
person.
> 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! :)
WTF? Dbootstrap DOES NOT support LVM or RAID, unless you do this
manually on the second console. What is soo hard to undestand this?
> Also, please refer to the Section 4 of Debian Social Contract:
>
> "
> Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software
Go away.
> > Okay, than you should know that your expectation is a wish, not a bug.
>
> It is misbehavior, hence a bug.
Wrong.
[deleted rest of personal attacks, added to scorefile]
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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