Re: 43p-140 install issues

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

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 16:06, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:32:37PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> > > Partman made a prep partition, but because of disk size (9GB) I was not
> > > able to size it < 1%  so it is 8.2 MB, more than the "magic" limit of 8
> > > MB for the PReP partition.......entering 6.0 MB for instance leads to 8.2
> > > MB again.
> >
> > I am following this, and i wonder if you could go to a console, and call up
> > parted to create the partition. It would be :
> >
> > parted scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> > (parted) mkpart ext2 primary 0 8
> > (parted) set 1 prep-boot on
> >    ( or set 1 prep on, depending on the parted version ).
> > (parted) print
> >
> > and show me the line of the partition. If it works for parted but not
> > partman, could you file a bug report against partman ?
> 
> after partman done:
> 
> 1    0.016   8.000  primary          prep-boot
> 
> then rm 1
> mkpart primary ext2 0 8
> set 1 prep-boot on
> print
> 
> 1   0.016  8.000 primary prep-boot (just the same)
> 
> then rm 1
> mkpart primary ext2 0 6
> set 1 prep-boot on
> print
> 
> 1   0.016  6.000 primary    prep-boot
> 
> seems to work fine......

Ok, then could you file a bug report against partman about this ? I will
follow it too, but it is best to do it formally so it doesn't get lost.

In case you don't know how : 

  apt-get install reportbug
  reportbug partman

Friendly,

Sven Luther