Hi, Karsten Merker <mer...@debian.org> (2017-02-10): > when using the "Guided - use entire disk" option, partman by > default clobbers the boot sector and the area after it (where > u-boot is located) to make sure that there are no remains of old > partition tables. We have code in partman-base that disables > this clobbering on systems of which we know that u-boot would be > damaged (which includes systems based on Freescale SoCs such as > your Cubox-i), but this doesn't work in your case as we currently > only disable the clobbering for /dev/mmcblk0 while your SD card > shows up as /dev/mmcblk1. I am not 100% sure about that, but IIRC > with older kernels the SD card in the cubox-i has shown up as > /dev/mmcblk0. > > The relevant code in partman-base can be seen here: > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-base.git/tree/parted_server.c#n1377 > > The easiest solution would be to check for /dev/mmcblk instead of > /dev/mmcblk0. If nobody has objections against this change, I'll > modify partman-base accordingly and upload a new version (CCing the > partman-base uploaders Max Vozeler, Anton Zinoviev, Colin Watson and > Christian Perrier and Kibi as the d-i release manager).
That seems like a fair approach, feel free to go ahead; thanks. KiBi.
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