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Re: D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (4)



On Sunday 19 March 2006 10:01, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Sorry - didn't have a chance to check that.
> Is the log automatically preserved?

Saved in /var/log/installer/... on the installed system.

> > Yes, if you did not set up /boot in the PALO partition during the
> > install, that is very likely as the kernel is installed after the
> > rest of the base system. We could probably add a check for the max
> > physical position of the partition that has /boot in palo-installer
> > (in a finish.d hook for partman).
> >
> > Care to file a bugreport about that?
>
> TBH, I don't considered it a bug unless it happens with
> a default install.

Well, partitioning manually is an option in a default install. Automatic 
partitioning is just for convenience. In a lot of cases users will want a 
different partition layout and thus need manual partitioning.

> It would be nice if the default install were smart enough to
> use sda1 as /boot _always_.
> That would completely avoid the issue of needing a check.

I think the reason in that partman is not really smart enough at the 
moment to format a partition type other than 83 as ext2. I'm not really 
sure of the details, but it will need some partman rewriting.
I agree it would make partitioning more logical.

> >    Device Boot   Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1            1           4       32098+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda2            5          20      128520   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda3           21        1106     8723295    5  Extended
> > /dev/sda5   *       21         338     2554303+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda6          339         369      248976   82  Linux swap
> > /dev/sda7          370        1106     5919921   83  Linux
>
> This works?!!
> Shouldn't sda1 be the palo partition? (Id == f0)
> I would expect palo command to complain that it can't find the palo
> partition.

Yeah, there is something weird there. I have 3 disks in my system and when 
I install to a second disk, the type of the PALO partition on the first 
disk will be changed; I have needed to change it back once. It does boot 
fine ATM, but there is definitely a bug there.

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