Invalid partition table

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 10.07.2004 schrieb Reshat Sabiq um 9:19:

> Problem solved: GRUB and logical /boot are not in peace w/ each other. :)
> I believe Disk Druid needs an enhancement (technically this could be 
> called a bug): if the user specifies GRUB as bootloader and /boot is not 
> primary, this should be descriptively reported back to the user. The 
> code to check this is already there, because this gets prevented while 
> partitioning entirely in Disk Druid, but if partitioning has been done 
> in advance (such as w/ fdisk), Disk Druid lets it pass.
> Can i report this as a bug, and if yes is bugs at redhat.com the right venue?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com - and only there

> I don't know how many people pre-partition like that, but i tend to 
> think i'm not the only one. And yes, i will never forget the lesson 
> learnt, but i wish i didn't spend that much time on learning it. :)

I think many pre-partition, especially those users with Windows[tm] in
parallel. And if you search this list you will find a lot of problem
reports by them, partitioned the disk with Windows[tm] or Partition
Magic, expecting Linux should have the same opinion about partition
table layout like the non *NIX world.

> <rsa/>

Alexander


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