On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > 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......
Ok, then could you file a bug report against partman about this ? I will follow it too, but it is best to do it formally so it doesn't get lost. In case you don't know how : apt-get install reportbug reportbug partman Friendly, Sven Luther
