Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: os-prober
SUN disk label requires a partition (usually /dev/XdY3) to be a
"whole_disk"
This partition encompass the entire disk including all partitions. In some cases
it is possible to mount it but it is wrong and bad to do it.
When testing os-prober in feisty this bug did not show up because of a different
Solaris installation I had on the test box, but recently i was able to find it.
The end result is that os-prober does mount the whole_disk and finds "another"
OS installer.
The right thing to do is to filter out partitions with sysfs attr
whole_disk.
oldpartition layoyt> os-prober
/dev/sda1:Solaris/SPARC:Solaris:chain
/dev/sdb2:Ubuntu gutsy (development branch) (7.10):Ubuntu:linux
newpartition layout> os-prober
/dev/sda1:Solaris/SPARC:Solaris:chain
/dev/sda3:Solaris/SPARC:Solaris1:chain
/dev/sdb2:Ubuntu gutsy (development branch) (7.10):Ubuntu:linux
The result is an extra entry in silo.conf that is not correct.
Fabio
** Affects: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Assignee: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Status: Fix Committed
** Changed in: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
Assignee: (unassigned) => Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Status: New => Fix Committed
Target: None => tribe-3
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[SPARC] os-prober should skip "whole_disk" partitions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122756
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