On Feb 10, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote:
> 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. It appears that as of Stretch 9.0.0 this fix has not made it into the distribution. Is there anything I can do to help make it happen? Rick
