Bug#295645: Grub makes bad decisions and fstab not populated
On Friday 18 February 2005 09:17, Joel wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:30:23 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:27, Joel Fenwick wrote:
> There are active bugs in bts where the geometry changes for no
> apparent reason. I was just being paranoid.
These have been fixed with the latest version of libparted a couple of
weeks ago.
> > > There doesn't seem to be a clear way to "Leave the partitions alone
> > > but mount this one as /". It seemed as if "You didn't modify the
> > > partition table so you can't go on".
> >
> > You always have to format your / partition, but there is absolutely
> > no requirement to change partition layout.
>
> Then why is there a question (if the drive is not empty) asking if you
> are sure if you want to install on a non empty disk? [I forget the
> exact wording]
That message is shown _because_ you did not indicate the / partition
should be formatted. It is a warning that you are doing that is quite
probable not correct.
> Also I could be wrong but I think the diaglogs are phrased like "write
> changes to partition table". Now if I haven't changed the table my
> first answer is always "no the table is fine as it is".
> If this is true the dialog is misleading.
The dialog is something like "will format your partitions and write _any_
changes to the partition table". "Any" means that if you did not change
anything that affect the partition table, nothing will be written to it.
> > That is probably caused by the fact that you did not finish
> > partitioning properly. If you decide not to use essential parts of
> > the system, you should be prepared to deal with breakage.
>
> Hmm true but unhelpful. :-(
> There is no indication anywhere that i could see that partitioning a
> disk is a dependency for having a properly populated fstab. Further it
How else do you expect the installation system to know how you want your
filesystems mounted if not from the partitioner?
> does not explain why when I told the system where my cdrom device was
> (the first time it asked) it did not record this info.
>
> Thanks
> Joel
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