reassign 610952 partman-partitioning 79 severity 610952 normal thanks I think this belongs to partman-partitioning, marking the version in Squeeze affected as I can reproduce it. And I think it should have at least normal severity.
Installing 6.0.5 using pxeboot on a 35GB VMware container with the following recipe d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ boot-root :: \ 768 10000 1024 linux-swap \ $primary{ } method{ swap } format{ } \ . \ 2048 100000 -1 ext4 \ $primary{ } method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ / } \ . results in the following partition table: root@debian:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 34.4 GB, 34359738368 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4177 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000455f5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 125 999424 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 125 4178 32552960 83 Linux You cannot even display that partition table in cfdisk because it bails out FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder Press any key to exit cfdisk As described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/551965 adding d-i partman/alignment select cylinder fixes the issue. root@debian:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 34.4 GB, 34359738368 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4177 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0004c37b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 124 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 125 4177 32555722+ 83 Linux Regards, Bernhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121108200618.gb2...@pest.krs8.birkenwald.de