Bugzilla – Bug 134594
wrong partitioning suggestion on Pegasos PPC
Last modified: 2006-01-17 17:09:25 UTC
The partitioning suggestion on Pegasos PPC is wrong. I have the following partition table: linux:~ # parted /dev/hda print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 40GB Disk label type: amiga Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 8225kB 1078MB 1069MB ext2 boot 2 1078MB 2147MB 1069MB linux-swap swap 3 2147MB 12GB 9656MB reiserfs debian 4 12GB 21GB 9656MB ext3 ubuntu 5 21GB 31GB 9656MB ext3 gentoo Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. and linux:~ # parted /dev/hdb print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0kB - 80GB Disk label type: amiga Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 516kB 1024MB 1023MB linux-swap dhx 2 1025MB 20GB 19GB ext3 dhx 3 20GB 80GB 60GB ext3 dhx Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. I was suggested to format /dev/hdb2 for swap and use /dev/hda2 as swap, but there was no suggestion for a / partition at all. YaST2 logs are attached.
Created attachment 57814 [details] YaST2 logs
The partition table was set to readonly since it's type is amiga and thus not supported by libstorage. Maybe the readonly flag causes the partition proposal to fail. We will look at this later.
Proposal for disks we cannot partition is unsupported.
Then please don't make a proposal at all. A wrong proposal is worst than no proposal at all.
There will be no Pegasos specific changes as long as this is not a supported architecture.
It's nothing Pegasos specific. If "partition table != DOS" then "we don't suggest anything". A direct link to the expert partitioner would be an extra bonus, if YaST can not make a correct proposal, but at least there should not be a wrong proposal.
A partitioning proposal has nothing to do with the partition table type. What you want is a modified proposal (or no proposal at all) for the Pegasos PPC. This can only be done if Pegasos is a supported architecture. So far hardware detection does not even tell me the fact that a certain machine is a Pegasos. So even if I were willing to make expecptions I do not have the necessary information. E.g. on Itaniums there is always a GPT partition table since the itanium bootloader EFI only supports GPT. Your above suggestion would break poposals on Itanium machines.