On Wednesday 12 January 2005 16:06, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:32:37PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > Partman made a prep partition, but because of disk size (9GB) I was not > > able to size it < 1% so it is 8.2 MB, more than the "magic" limit of 8 > > MB for the PReP partition.......entering 6.0 MB for instance leads to 8.2 > > MB again. > > I am following this, and i wonder if you could go to a console, and call up > parted to create the partition. It would be : > > parted scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > (parted) mkpart ext2 primary 0 8 > (parted) set 1 prep-boot on > ( or set 1 prep on, depending on the parted version ). > (parted) print > > and show me the line of the partition. If it works for parted but not > partman, could you file a bug report against partman ?
after partman done: 1 0.016 8.000 primary prep-boot then rm 1 mkpart primary ext2 0 8 set 1 prep-boot on print 1 0.016 8.000 primary prep-boot (just the same) then rm 1 mkpart primary ext2 0 6 set 1 prep-boot on print 1 0.016 6.000 primary prep-boot seems to work fine...... Friendly. Felipe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]