Bug#236973: Successful but troubled installation on mips (Indy R4k)
Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 8.III.2004 22:38 at Nicholas Breen wrote:
> >
> > The partitioning tool proved troublesome.
> > - Default partition table selection should be 'dvh'.
>
> I think in partman it is 'dvh'.
It should only be dvh for the SGI subarchitectures, Other mipsen use
msdos labels.
> > - When editing an individual partition, the name option doesn't seem
> > to do anything, and any name entered in that screen does not appear
> > when you continue.
>
> I can reproduce this on i386 with dvh partition table. However parted
> gives the reason of this, it says "Error: Only logical partitions
> (boot files) have a name.". I don't know why partman doesn't say the
> same, probably the debconf priority of the message is too low.
dvh labels don't have logical partitions.
> Is it possible to use parted to create partition table on SGI? If
> yes, then it must be possible to use partman. Otherwise partman
> should not be used on SGI. I don't know how to setup properly dvh
> partition tably using parted.
parted fails also. The layout of a dvh label allows for:
- 15 partitions, named from #1 to #15
- #11 spans the whole volume and is type SGI volume (6)
- #9 is the disk volume header, type SGI volume header (0),
and contains the second stage bootloader (and probably
kernel images).
The other partitions can be freely used, with one marked as boot,
and one marked as swap (the latter could be used for a minimal
rescue system).
> I tried fdisk, but it exits with "Floating point exception".
This happens AFAIK always when parted was attempted earlier,
parted seems to leave some poisonous pattern there.
Thiemo
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