Bug#267652: partman cannot see my BSD/OSF disklabel
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Package: partman
Version: (current, 2004-08-23, in Sarge installer)
Severity: important
Using (the latest) boot.img, I netboot an Alpha PC164 machine. This has a
previous version of RedHat on it (which I would like to scrub) and a
data-partition I wish to retain.
The install proceeds correctly, allowing me to choose a archive mirror.
However partman does not detect the OSF/BSD disklabel (required by SRM
console booting).
On selecting "manually edit partition table", I'm presented with the usual
options (Configure software RAID, Configure LVM, ...) but just the disk name:
IDE1 master (hda) - 8.4 GB IBM-DTTA-350840
There is no mention of the corresponding partitions.
When I select this device, I'm asked if I wish to create a new partition table
on the device.
If I I run dmesg in another console I see that the kernel readily detects the
partition, and if I boot off the disk, the existing distribution continues to
work without issue.
Should this work?
Cheers,
Paul.
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