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From: Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:06:01 +0100 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#411756: debian-installer: missing "11. physical volume for RAID" on sparc64 for every first partition on a disk Reply-To: Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Hi Joey! * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-27 03:03]: > Martin Wuertele wrote: > > partman doesn't display option "11. physical volume for RAID" for the first > > partition of any disk. option eleven however does show up for the other > > partitions. > > > > I can reproduce this bug on 2 different Netra X1s and on one Netra t1 105 > > with > > the daily build netboot sparc64 image from 18.02.2007. > > That's because it doesn't work on sparc to use the first partition for > RAID, IIRC. > > partman-md (24) unstable; urgency=low > > [ Fabio M. Di Nitto ] > * RAID cannot be selected if we are on sparc AND the partiton starts at 0 > otherwise there will partition table corruption happening in the first > 512 bytes of the disk. It works out of the box on my netra t1 and the netra x1s. This limitation only applies to old sparcs. yours Martin -- http://martin.wuertele.net/ -- Debian -- OFTC -- SPI -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <fabbione> I AM ON TV AGAIN!!!!! <fabbione> I AM SUPER FICHISSIMO! ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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