On Friday 29 April 2005 15:47, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: > So, after all it looks like the problem was on my side. I'm terribly > sorry for misinforming you, and I take back my words. Looks like Frans > was right when he wrote about "user error". I bow my head before him. He > is the one who really knows better how to handle Debian on sparc... But > I'm learning :-) :-) /me is only a newbie regarding Sparc himself ;-) > Probably putting swap partition in a different location could save me a > bit of trouble. But on the side note, it was Solaris installer that put > swap partition on cylinders 0-258 of the hard drive. So it looked to me > that it knew what it was doing proposing such layout upon install. It probably does.... for Solaris. I think that Solaris may format/use the swap partition in a different way than linux (and thus Debian) does. So, the problem is that the installer "blindly" re-uses (and also formats by default) a swap partition that starts in sector 0. There already is some code and dialogs in silo-installer that hooks into partman to warn about this, but that code appears to be unfinished and is currently not used. Cheers, FJP
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