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  • Bug#266565: when selecting /boot as a mountpoint, partition should be m

    From Joshua Kwan@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 18 12:20:07 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Package: partman
    Severity: minor

    Currently, if a partition's mountpoint defaults to /, and one sets it to
    /boot, the disklabel changes along with it but the bootable flag should
    also get set. In 99% of cases that's the correct thing to do. The other
    1% of installs involves people with a separate special bootloader who
    know what to do with it.. so I don't think it's harmful.

    Thanks.

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    Joshua Kwan


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  • From Sven Luther@1:229/2 to Joshua Kwan on Wed Aug 18 13:00:10 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:55:23AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
    Package: partman
    Severity: minor

    Currently, if a partition's mountpoint defaults to /, and one sets it to /boot, the disklabel changes along with it but the bootable flag should
    also get set. In 99% of cases that's the correct thing to do. The other
    1% of installs involves people with a separate special bootloader who
    know what to do with it.. so I don't think it's harmful.

    Please don't do that on amiga partition tables, as this is broken behavior there, as the boot flag is only used on amigaos or morphos, not for linux, and is used to indicate a working amigaos/morphos system partition.

    Friendly,

    Sven Luther


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