Re: Debian installer: partman-prep
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:36:29PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
>
> >That said, i think the trademarked word is PowerPC, ppc is the kernel
> >shorthand, and maybe also used in fdisk. "PowerPC PReP" should be the
> >right
> >way to describe it. I think IBM has some powerpc spelling guide
> >somewhere, not
> >sure.
> >
> I've modified it to use the fdisk spelling all the time "PPC PReP
> Boot", but of cause, it's no problem to switch to "PowerPC PReP".
That would be best "PowerPC PReP Boot" i think.
> >>>Finally, one template mention the partition must be in the first "8
> >>>Mb". I guess these are indeeed megaBYTES...so this should rather be
> >>>"8MB".
> >>
> >>I've just copied stuff from partman-palo and focused to functionality
> >>first.
> >
> >Cajus, does this indeed work for you ? And how exactly does one make
> >use of
> >the partman-prep stuff ?
> >
> Yeah. It worked out of the box for the chrp_pseries subarch. If you
Ok, but how is it supposed to work ? I think it doesn't work for me ...
> need it for other subarchs, you've to add it to the control files
> XB-Subarchitecture field. That's all.
... even though i added prep to the XB-Subarchitecture. I don't really know
why though. As i understand partman should enable you to select a partition
and mark is as "use as prep boot partition" or something such, but altough
partman output some prep stuff in its log, it doesn't show the option, which
has me baffled.
> I've modified partman-auto already, but it's not checked in yet.
Could you check it in ? And mark the changelog entries as UNRELEASED, until
the release happens, like i have done for partman-prep.
BTW, do you irc ? if so, we can discuss this on irc.freenode.org, channel
#debian-boot ? I am svenl there.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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