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Re: Partition type selection with sarge installer



Hello

Am Freitag, 23. Juli 2004 07:15 schrieb Anton Zinoviev:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:26:51PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > I told the installer to make the changes, and it did create a new
> > ext3 file system on the partition,
>
> Partman created the ext3 file system, but didn't write the partition
> table. I already fixed this bug on my computer but I haven't tested
> the fix enough so I have not commited.
>
> For now the work around is to make any change in the partition table.
> For example you can remove a partition and recreate it afterwards. 
> Or you can simply toggle the bootable flag of the bootable partition
> off and then back on.  In this way partman will think that the
> partition table is changed and will write it to the disk.

I will use that workaround the next time I install Sarge. Thanks so far.

best regards
	Andreas Janssen

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