Control: tag -1 patch pending Hi,
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> (2017-02-19):
> (reported by "jim" on #debian-boot)
>
> After choosing LILO rather than GRUB as the boot loader,
> lilo-installer fails when invoking sfdisk.
>
> Tested on /dev/vda and /dev/vda1.
>
>
> A totally untested idea for a patch attached.
I've reworded the patch a little, see attached file.
diskutils/sfdisk.c was rewritten anew in v2.26-rc1 and support for the
old shortcut was dropped when --activate was added again after they
restarted from a fresh main(), with getopts.
Pointers:
* Switch to basic main(), old code deletion
→ 1881390de25df8587b8fc281c451796f7d032dd3
* (Re)addition of--activate
→ 54b13b0c5caf6ae1745cbd526ea7e6581811b37f
Old comments:
/*
* Activate: usually one wants to have a single primary partition
* to be active. OS/2 fdisk makes non-bootable logical partitions
* active - I don't know what that means to OS/2 Boot Manager.
*
* Call: activate /dev/hda 2 5 7 make these partitions active
* and the remaining ones inactive
* Or: sfdisk -A /dev/hda 2 5 7
*
* If only a single partition must be active, one may also use the form
* sfdisk -A2 /dev/hda
*
* With "activate /dev/hda" or "sfdisk -A /dev/hda" the active partitions
* are listed but not changed. To get zero active partitions, use
* "activate /dev/hda none" or "sfdisk -A /dev/hda none".
* Use something like `echo ",,,*" | sfdisk -N2 /dev/hda' to only make
* /dev/hda2 active, without changing other partitions.
*
* A warning will be given if after the change not precisely one primary
* partition is active.
*
* The present syntax was chosen to be (somewhat) compatible with the
* activate from the LILO package.
*/
Awaiting test results from the reporter before pushing.
KiBi.
From 5470ee9fafecfc897503e18ce89dc9b11f528251 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 05:43:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Reverse the order of arguments to sfdisk -A, and switch to
--activate.
During a massive overhaul in util-linux 2.26, sfdisk -A accidentally
changed meaning to --append. This change was later reverted, but the
parsing was also reworked, and support for shortcuts like "fdisk -A2
/dev/hda" instead of "fdisk -A /dev/hda 2" was dropped.
So switch from -A to --activate for safety, and use the expected
argument order.
Submitted-by: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
Commit message amended based on some util-linux history digging, and
quotes added to all arguments.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>
---
debian/changelog | 9 +++++++++
debian/postinst | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 875dcdc..0a156fc 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+lilo-installer (1.52) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ [ Adam Borowski ]
+ * Reverse the order of arguments to sfdisk -A, and switch to --activate
+ for extra safety since util-linux upstream had -a/-A mixed up at some
+ point, and support for old syntax was dropped anyway (Closes: #855489).
+
+ -- Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> Sun, 19 Feb 2017 06:05:22 +0100
+
lilo-installer (1.51) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Updated translations ]
diff --git a/debian/postinst b/debian/postinst
index 58ab0ce..dca8a4a 100755
--- a/debian/postinst
+++ b/debian/postinst
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ if (echo "${bootdev}" | grep -v '/c[0-9]d[0-9]$' | grep -q '[0-9]$') \
if [ "${RET}" = "true" ]; then
pnum=$(echo ${bootdev} | sed 's/^.*\([0-9]\+\)$/\1/')
echo -n "I: Setting partition to active..." >&2
- sfdisk -A${pnum} ${disc_offered_devfs}
+ sfdisk --activate "${disc_offered_devfs}" "${pnum}"
echo "done." >&2
fi
fi
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ if [ "${raid_boot}" = no ] && (! fdisk -l "$disc_offered_devfs" | grep '^/dev/'
# /boot.
pnum="$(echo "$bootfs" | sed 's/^.*\([0-9]\+\)$/\1/')"
echo -n "I: Setting partition $bootfs to active..." >&2
- sfdisk -A"$pnum" "$disc_offered_devfs"
+ sfdisk --activate "${disc_offered_devfs}" "${pnum}"
echo "done." >&2
fi
fi
--
2.1.4
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