Bug#854822: installation-report: U-boot not correctly installed when partitioning with "Guided - use entire disk"
On Feb 10, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2017-02-10):
>> when using the "Guided - use entire disk" option, partman by
>> default clobbers the boot sector and the area after it (where
>> u-boot is located) to make sure that there are no remains of old
>> partition tables. We have code in partman-base that disables
>> this clobbering on systems of which we know that u-boot would be
>> damaged (which includes systems based on Freescale SoCs such as
>> your Cubox-i), but this doesn't work in your case as we currently
>> only disable the clobbering for /dev/mmcblk0 while your SD card
>> shows up as /dev/mmcblk1. I am not 100% sure about that, but IIRC
>> with older kernels the SD card in the cubox-i has shown up as
>> /dev/mmcblk0.
>>
>> The relevant code in partman-base can be seen here:
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-base.git/tree/parted_server.c#n1377
>>
>> The easiest solution would be to check for /dev/mmcblk instead of
>> /dev/mmcblk0. If nobody has objections against this change, I'll
>> modify partman-base accordingly and upload a new version (CCing the
>> partman-base uploaders Max Vozeler, Anton Zinoviev, Colin Watson and
>> Christian Perrier and Kibi as the d-i release manager).
>
> That seems like a fair approach, feel free to go ahead; thanks.
>
>
> KiBi.
It appears that as of Stretch 9.0.0 this fix has not made it into the distribution.
Is there anything I can do to help make it happen?
Rick
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