Bug#279017: partconf: Does not change partition type
* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>:
> I don't understand why you think this is a bug in partconf. To start
> with, partconf is not even available for the i386 architecture.
Sorry, I searched for debian-installer bugs and found the name and
package partconf. Please move the bug to a more suitable package.
> > 1. Create a partition
> > 2. Set type to 0xc (W95 FAT32 LBA)
> > 3. Install Debian from CD as normal
> > 4. Manually select the partition as install target
> > 5. Create a new filesystem (I used ext3)
> > 6. Continue with install (base system etc.)
> > 7. Answer grub's question to install into MBR with yes
> > 8. grub-install fails
>
> I've installed over top of windows installs, which I presume set the
> parrtition type to non-linux, and it worked fine.
You mean you cannot confirm this? I tried it two times like described
above. Maybe some more infos to my system are needed.
My main partition is /dev/hda with my main system. For Windows and
playing I have a second disk /dev/hdb.
$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 7 91 682762+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 92 14596 116511412+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 3825 9729 47431912+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 3825 5099 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 5100 9729 37190443+ 83 Linux
The /dev/hdb5 is the partition I tried to install in. It was a former
FAT32 file system with partition type 0xc.
I will try it again and report the exact grub error when called from
console. I have no floppy to write the logfile for debugging. If I try
to write it, it failes finding a floppy and there logfile is no in
/target/var/log/debian-installer, too.
Regards, Kai
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