Bug#401264: partman-auto-lvm: [powerpc, prep] On PReP systems, no separate /boot is needed, since we have the prep partition

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:51:33PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:37:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> >Package: partman-auto-lvm
> >Version: 18
> >Severity: normal
> >
> >
> >Hello, ...
> >
> >I am doing a prep install on my motorola powerstack II, and found that 
> >chosing
> >a LVM automated setup, the recipes automatically creates a separate /boot
> >partition.
> >
> >On PReP system, the kernel with builtin initrd and bootwrapper is put 
> >inside
> >the PReP partition, so there is no need for a separate /boot outside the 
> >LVM.
> >This should be valid for other root on RAID and LVM+CRYPTO recipes.
> 
> Note that this requires changes to auto-lvm_tools.sh in partman-auto-lvm 
> if /boot is excluded since it includes the following lines:
> 
> # Check if the scheme contains a boot partition; if not warn the user
> if ! echo "$normalscheme" | grep -q "[[:space:]]/boot[[:space:]]"; then
> 	db_input critical partman-auto-lvm/no_boot || true
> 	db_go || return 30
> 	db_get partman-auto-lvm/no_boot || true
> 	[ "$RET" = true ] || return 30
> fi

Ah, nice catch.

Friendly,

Sven Luther