Bug#228870: Can't mount partition on hdb as /

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:19:13PM +0100, Eugenia Franzoni wrote:
> > BTW, could you tell me how it cames that originally you tried a pc98
> > disklabel ? Did you choose it by yourself in parted, or did some d-i
> > tool try to add it ? Or maybe your disk had already a pc98 partition on
> > it ?
> 
> It was the default parted showed me when I used mklabel, so I think
> the disk had already a pc98 partition. I am not skilled in these things,
> though, so I'm not sure of it, and I don't know how it could have
> happened.

The question to know here, is if what you saw was the result of a
mistake of yours (choosing pc98 instead of msdos), or because your disk
was already formatted in pc98 modus. If this is so, we can close this
bug report.

If on the other hand, the presence of a pc98 partition table is due to
for some reason or other some part of d-i choosing it for you, or
recomending you to use it, then this is a d-i bug, and needs to be
closed. 

But this distinction, i fear, only you can make it, since i am not
really all that familiar with the partitioning tools involved in d-i,
and i don't know exactly what you did or did not.

Friendly,

Sven Luther