Bug#284082: Incomplete entry in the errata of rc2
tags 284082 patch
thanks mate
Anton,
I don't know where the source for the web is, so I've hacked the
html from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
Does this say it correctly?
Vince
--- errata.htm.orig 2004-12-04 12:21:26.000000000 +1100
+++ errata.htm 2004-12-04 12:38:46.000000000 +1100
@@ -104,8 +104,24 @@
<li><b>LVM failure on Sparc32 (at least).</b>
If you want to create LVM volume groups, the physical volumes must not
reside at the beginning of the disk, or else activating new logical
- volumes within the volume group will fail. This is due to some
- unforeseen quirks in Sun disk labels.
+ volumes within the volume group will fail.
+ <p>
+ This happens because the Sun disk label resides at the beginning
+ of the disk and the first partition may start from the beginning
+ of the disk. Hence the partition table becomes part of the first
+ partition. Most file systems are smart enough not to write data
+ at the start of their partition (which in this case clobbers the
+ partition table). Two important types of partition where data
+ <em>will</em> be written to the start of the partion are the physical
+ volumes for LVM or RAID, and swap space.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Therefore, on Sparc32 (at least) users may <strong>not</strong> create
+ swap space partitions, or partitions for LVM or RAID at the
+ <em>beginning</em> of the disk. If users do this, the partition table
+ will subsequently be completely erased when the partition is used,
+ for example when booting a freshly installed system.
+ </p>
</li>
<li><b>2.6 install have the potential to mess up Windows partitioning.</b>
The fixes the the 2.6 CHS issue in parted are apparently
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