close 402606 128 merge 298042 402606 thanks On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:35PM +0100, paul van den berg wrote: > I installed etch on an old pc, using manual partitioning. I selected an > existing NTFS partition (/dev/hda1) as ext3 root filesystem. > The partition was formatted, and installation went ok until installation of > grub. Grub-install could not install stage1 on /dev/hda. Lilo-install > worked. > After rebooting I ran fdisk and learned that the partion type of /dev/hda1 > was still NTFS (id=7). After setting the type to Linux (id=83) and rebooting > I could install grub.
I think this should have been fixed by my change in partman-base 128 (see bug #298042), fixed in current lenny builds. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
