Bug#402606: installation-report: partitioner does not update partition type when using previous NTFS partition

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

close 402606 128
merge 298042 402606
thanks

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:35PM +0100, paul van den berg wrote:
> I installed etch on an old pc, using manual partitioning. I selected an
> existing NTFS partition (/dev/hda1) as ext3 root filesystem. 
> The partition was formatted, and installation went ok until installation of
> grub. Grub-install could not install stage1 on /dev/hda. Lilo-install
> worked.
> After rebooting I ran fdisk and learned that the partion type of /dev/hda1
> was still NTFS (id=7). After setting the type to Linux (id=83) and rebooting
> I could install grub.

I think this should have been fixed by my change in partman-base 128
(see bug #298042), fixed in current lenny builds.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]