[Bug 318393] Re: installer skips primary partition

2009-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
Thanks for following up. -- installer skips primary partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm

[Bug 318393] Re: installer skips primary partition

2009-01-25 Thread JanCeuleers
Not a problem. ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- installer skips primary partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 318393] Re: installer skips primary partition

2009-01-25 Thread JanCeuleers
Further tests show that what I reported does not present a problem for the use cases I explored (other than the cosmetic aspect). Please feel free to close the bug AFAIAC. -- installer skips primary partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318393 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 318393] Re: installer skips primary partition

2009-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
The "skipped" partition number 2 is in fact the extended partition containing the logical partition (5). So the order of events is: 1) create primary partition number 1 2) create logical partition number 5, causing the partitioner to implicitly allocate an extended partition number 2 (as it m

[Bug 318393] Re: installer skips primary partition

2009-01-18 Thread JanCeuleers
Thanks for your quick response. I don't know whether this is a cosmetic problem, as the one install I attempted with the 1/3/5 partition layout failed (grub error 18 upon reboot at the end of what up until that point looked like a successful install), but several other things also differed between

[Bug 318393] Re: installer skips primary partition

2009-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
Yes, it depends on the order of creation. I'm not really sure that this is a major problem? If you come along and resize partitions afterwards and insert new ones in the middle, you'll also end up with partition numbering that doesn't match the physical ordering of the partitions on the disk, since