Bug#238091: debian-installer: partman does not detect sun disklabel

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 15.III.2004 at 04:19 Erinn Clark wrote:
> 
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
>
> Partman invoked from d-i didn't seem to detect my sun disklabel and
> therefore, attempts to rewrite the entire disk without noticing that
> there are already pre-existing partitions.  (Well, one partition.)

Partman should never rewrite the disk without confirmation by the user.

> This is a partition table from a woody install.  The original
> disklabel was inherited from Solaris.
> 
> od -v -Ax -tx1 < /dev/sda | head -32
> 000000 53 55 4e 32 2e 31 47 20 63 79 6c 20 32 37 33 33
> ....

Hmm, I tried to re-od by an awk script and the woody version of parted
seams not to recognise this label (I haven't tried the newest version
of parted).  This is strange because parted is the default partitioner
on SPARCs and even it can not detect your disklabel.  Can you confirm
that parted doesn't recognise the disk label on this disk?  If it
doesn't how you can partition the disk on Linux?

Anton Zinoviev