Bug#261834: marked as done (install: cannot partition for aboot on alpha)
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From: Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@aei.mpg.de>
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Subject: install: cannot partition for aboot on alpha
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Package: install
Severity: normal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-generic
Hardware: Compaq XP1000, with two SCSI disks 9GB each
Planned partition:
sda1 aboot
sda2 /boot (ext2)
sda3 / (ext3)
sda4 /home (ext3)
sda5 swap
sdb left empty for future expansions
Used software: boot.img from ~vorlon, dated Jul 27, size 5408452 bytes
Boot from DHCP3 server, using 'boot ewa0 -flags ""'
selected installation: testing from mirror: ftp.de.debian.org
partition procedure 1:
- erase disk SCSI2 0,0,0 (sda)
- Go Back
- create empty partition tables for sda and sdb
- create sda1 32MB for use with aboot
- create sda2 32MB ext2 as /boot
- automatically partition sdb with separate /home
--> partition assignment for sda will be lost ("do not use")
--> no space for aboot
- re-assigning sda1 and sda2 (incl. setting mount point for sdb2) will
allow to proceed
culprit: partitioning of the second disk should never modify previous
settings for sda
partition procedure 2: (single disk)
- erase disk SCSI2 0,0,0 (sda)
- Go Back
- create empty partition tables for sda and sdb
- create sda1 32MB for use with aboot
- create sda2 32MB ext2 as /boot
- create sda[3-5] (automatically or manually, doesn't matter, with
settings used by automatic partitioning with /home)
- will result in part table:
#1 32MB aboot
#2 32MB ext2 /boot
#3 2.5GB ext3 /
#4 6.1GB ext3 /home
#5 324MB swap swap
- next step will refuse aboot installation (no space for aboot) and
throw me back to partitioning.
- if I remove sda[3-5] and create these partitions on sdb, everything
is fine.
culprit: single disk installation seems to be impossible if second disk
available
small glitch: df does not give sensible values (even for /)
Cheers,
Steffen Grunewald
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:48:54 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
To: Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@aei.mpg.de>,
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Subject: Re: Bug#261834: install: cannot partition for aboot on alpha
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Hi Steffen,
Thanks for testing.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:03:46PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Package: install
> Severity: normal
> Hardware: Compaq XP1000, with two SCSI disks 9GB each
> Planned partition:
> sda1 aboot
> sda2 /boot (ext2)
> sda3 / (ext3)
> sda4 /home (ext3)
> sda5 swap
> sdb left empty for future expansions
> Used software: boot.img from ~vorlon, dated Jul 27, size 5408452 bytes
> Boot from DHCP3 server, using 'boot ewa0 -flags ""'
> selected installation: testing from mirror: ftp.de.debian.org
> partition procedure 1:
> - erase disk SCSI2 0,0,0 (sda)
> - Go Back
> - create empty partition tables for sda and sdb
> - create sda1 32MB for use with aboot
> - create sda2 32MB ext2 as /boot
> - automatically partition sdb with separate /home
> --> partition assignment for sda will be lost ("do not use")
> --> no space for aboot
> - re-assigning sda1 and sda2 (incl. setting mount point for sdb2) will=20
> allow to proceed
> culprit: partitioning of the second disk should never modify previous
> settings for sda
Auto-partitioning means that you're allowing the system to choose a
fixed partition layout for you. I don't think it's reasonable to expect
auto-partitioning of /dev/sdb to keep partitions from /dev/sda that use
the same mountpoints.
If you're going to mix&match autopartitioning and manual partitioning,
the autopartitioning needs to be done first.
> partition procedure 2: (single disk)
> - erase disk SCSI2 0,0,0 (sda)
> - Go Back
> - create empty partition tables for sda and sdb
> - create sda1 32MB for use with aboot
> - create sda2 32MB ext2 as /boot
> - create sda[3-5] (automatically or manually, doesn't matter, with
> settings used by automatic partitioning with /home)
> - will result in part table:
> #1 32MB aboot
> #2 32MB ext2 /boot
> #3 2.5GB ext3 /
> #4 6.1GB ext3 /home
> #5 324MB swap swap
> - next step will refuse aboot installation (no space for aboot) and
> throw me back to partitioning.
> - if I remove sda[3-5] and create these partitions on sdb, everything
> is fine.
> culprit: single disk installation seems to be impossible if second disk
> available
The "no space for aboot" error is a subtle busybox bug that should be
fixed in today's daily images. Please re-open this bug if you find that=20
you're still having problems.
Thanks,
--=20
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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