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Bug#279017: partconf: Does not change partition type



Kai Weber wrote:
> * 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.

Tried again, I seem to reproduce it. I created a 300 mb fat32 partition
with cfdisk (unformatted), continued the install, told partman to use
that partition as a ext3 partition for root, checked partition table
with cfdisk during base install and it was still type 0xc, then at grub
install time it failed with "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read
correctly".

Reassigning to partman, I suppose it doesn't think to change partition
types if an existing partition is reused.

-- 
see shy jo

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