On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:59:18PM +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote: >> Perhaps Installer should warn about it ?
Yes it would be nice. On 22/07/13 19:42, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Maybe the installer could warn about a likely broken partition > layout after you choose manual layout. It already warns if, for example, you don't create a swap partition. It also warns about using ZFS on kfreebsd-i386 (on which it is not suggested to be stable), or using ZFS on kfreebsd-amd64 with less than 512 MiB RAM. So that was probably borrowing the same code. Some other configurations can lead to a GRUB failure at the end of the install process; it would be most helpful if the installer warned about this at the partitioning stage instead: * gpt disklabel with no BIOS Boot Partition to put GRUB boot blocks; * (re)using an msdos disklabel with insufficient gap before the first partition starts (installer now does the right thing and places it after 1 MiB, but only if you're creating the partition or disklabel afresh on that media); * /boot on reiserfs (and probably others) AFAIK isn't useful for GRUB, because it doesn't know how to replay the journal / transaction log; I think that was also the case for ext3 and ext4 until recent versions, but I'd still use ext2 for it out of habit. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
