Bug#236330: partman - blocks on s390

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

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:36:48PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On  5.III.2004 at 18:36 Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Package: partman
> > Version: 12
> > Severity: grave
> > 
> > partman is unusable on s390 and blocks completely after issuing a error
> > about the sector size.
> 
> Version 15 of partman prints a message if the architecture is not
> supported.  Currently unsupported are s390 and the atari subarch of m68k.

If someone can provide me information for those partition types, i would
be glad to add support for them to libparted. I cannot test them
obviously though.

Anton, this afternoon, i will add per subarch information about
partition types for powerpc, can you then make an upload once i have
done that ? 

Also, i guess it would be interesting to add a information message on
how to best partition on a given subarch.

For example, yaboot needs a special partition on pmacs, and pegasos
needs an affs partition if it is going to be used together with morphos,
which is the native pegasos os. Also, pegasos 1 cannot yet boot from
ext2 partitions, so and affs partition is needed (but libparted cannot
yet format those, need to fix that).

Friendly,

Sven Luther