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Bug#261306: Partitioning problem on alpha



On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:05:35PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
>  I allowed partman to use the entire drive, and this is what it gave me:
>  /dev/rd/disc0/disc - 30.0 GB DAC960 RAID controller
>       #1   1.0 MB   K aboot
>       #2  29.5 GB   F ext3       /
>       #3 512.0 MB   F swap       swap

> Comments/Problems:

> Partitioning worked (the daily from 20040723 had gotten into a loop,
> apparently running into problems writing the partition table to disk),
> and the root filesystem and swap space were created.  After that, it
> popped up a message telling me that I hadn't left space for aboot and
> that it couldn't install it for me (and thus I wouldn't be able to boot
> from SRM if I continued).  Since the partitioner had explicitly left
> space for aboot, some sort of confusion must be afoot.

Is there any chance you could get me the start and end sectors for the
aboot partition, using fdisk?

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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