On Wed, 11 May 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Hi Sylvain,
Sorry for the delayed reply.
[...]
I then tried the experimental version - version 4.0~beta2+experimental60 at the
time
and this worked quite nicely. I then recently rebuilt my NFSROOT with the
latest experimental
version and it now complains about overflow. The behavior is the same whether I
use
preserve_always or preserve_lazy BTW.
[...]
I'm pretty sure the problem is that we've been changing the alignment
constraints in 4.0~beta2+experimental* back and forth. I think, back in
experimental60 you would get sector-based alignment with this setup. For
backward compatibility with non-experimental versions, however, this has been
changed to a default of cylinder-based alignment *if partitions are to be
preserved* in later versions, as this was the default for all official releases.
The most accurate way to work around this would be using
disk_config sda bootable:1 align-at:512B
...
disk_config sdb bootable:1 align-at:512B
...
Another option would be changing the size of sd{a,b}7:
disk_config sda bootable:1
primary /boot 100 ext2 rw,errors=remount-ro
logical - 4000 - -
logical - 2950- - -
logical - 0- - -
disk_config sdb bootable:1
primary - 100 ext2 -
logical - 4000 - -
logical - 2950- - -
logical - 0- - -
Hope this helps,
Michael
Hello Michael,
It sure did (help)! Considering the fact that your timezone is 6 hours ahead of
mine,
that's a pretty fast reply!
Anyway, thanks for your response - I used version 3.4.8 and followed your
suggestion to add
"align-at:512B" to my disk configurations ... and it worked very nicely. My
partition
was also preserved on the following (re)installation.
All the best,
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