Bug#310754: installation-reports

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

reassign 310754 partman
retitle 310754 Should check if labels are already in use
severity 310754 important
thanks

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 19:52, Nik A. Melchior wrote:
> The biggest problem I had was with the labelling of partitions.
[...] 
> However, the RedHat grub entries relied on mounting the root partition
> by the label (LABEL=/).  The debian-installer assigned this same label
> to its root partition (/dev/hda2). Even though I was in expert mode, I
> don't recall being offered a choice to veto this label.  As a result,
> the already-present RedHat grub entries booted old RedHat kernels with
> the new Debian root filesystem.  Results were interesting but easily
> correctable.

I think I've seen this issue reported before, although I can't find the 
report just now. Reassigning your report to partman.

Cheers,
FJP