On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:31:17AM -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >Package: parted > >Version: 1.7.1 > >Severity: grave > >Justification: renders package unusable > > > > > >When creating a mac partition table (on a 64bit powerpc XServe G5 machine), > >with todays d-i daily build, parted 1.7.1 is not able to show the resulting > >partition table. It recognizes the partition table as a mac partition > >table, > >but shows no partitions. > > > >The partitions show up just right inside partman though, which uses > >libparted. > > Can you try with parted-1.8.0rc2 and see if the problem persists? We've
I am unable to build the 1.8 svn version, due to some autoconf/automake issues. > introduced a lot of fixes for Mac disklabels in what will be the 1.8.0 > release: > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted Well, the problem seems to be linked in the d-i environment, since in the installed system things work just fine. I am really baffled by this, first time i see it, but it may be due to some devfs compatibility things that are done maybe ? Not sure though, the partition table is recognized as a mac one. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
