clone 253854 -1 reassign -1 partman-jfs retitle -1 partman-jfs: can GRUB boot from JFS after all? thanks
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:40:49AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Comments/Problems: > Some modules couldn't be loaded; Which ones? > Creating the ~20GB JFS partition took more than 1hour, I suspect this > is due to too extensive bad-block tests, This has been fixed in unstable. > First I tried the "businesscard" ISO, but the base system installation > failed with error 1 (it didn't give any details, not even related > errors on vc/3 and vc/4...), the "netinstall" ISO didn't show this > problem; This is probably the debootstrap screwup, which is known and reported. > First I tried to only create a swap and a root partition, root type > JFS, and the installer complained that it's likely that GRUB cannot > boot off of a JFS partition, and indeed it had a fatal error > installing GRUB, when I created a small Ext3 /boot partition GRUB > installed fine, *BUT* I was previously using GRUB and JFS (my previous > Debian install) and GRUB *CAN* reliably boot from JFS and install > itself!; Not sure what's involved here; I have no i386 test box. Anyone? > Also, the partitioner set the type of the swap partition to 0x83, > whereas "linux swap" should be 0x82, but this is only a minor problem That sounds like it must be a parted bug, as the d-i partitioner knows nothing of partition types at that level. Anyone? > Sorry I had to forge my "From: " address because it seems the BTS is > crawled by spambots and I got tremendous amouts of spam on my address > I used for reporting bugs :-/ Unfortunately, this means that we probably can't contact you to ask for clarifications, which makes our job unnecessarily difficult. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
