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Bug#273768: parted issues (aboot)



On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 06:37:00PM -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > I have no explanation for the VM errors you received; I don't believe
> > this is related to the partitioning question.

> On subsequent thought, I do notice that the logs generated are quite
> large.  Perhaps the VM problems were due to running out of memory because
> the ramdisk was full of log messages.  This system had 64M.

Ah, yes, this seems likely.

> WRT the disklabel question, I really don't see a way to avoid prompting the
> user with the option of using disklabel versus DOS partitions, other than
> making disklabel the default on alpha, and then you still have to deal
> with drives that have resident DOS partition tables.  Whatever the solution
> ends up being, the situation with aboot deserves coverage in the
> installation manual.

As it happens, disklabels *are* the default for alpha... when you're
creating a new partition table.  In other cases, I agree that this is a
documentation issue.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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