[26494] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux-Athena installer improperly created partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed Aug 10 18:01:45 2005
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:01:10 -0400
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From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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In-reply-to: <41C0EA12.60800@mit.edu> (message from Kevin Chen on Wed, 15 Dec
2004 20:51:14 -0500)
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>The user previously had a Windows partition. It however, is not listed
>here, and indeed, the machine was unbootable at this point. However,
>note that /dev/hda1 does not start at the beginning of the disk.
This bug has been fixed in the dev cell installer volume, and will be
released to the athena cell after a bit more testing. (Briefly, the
semantics of /proc/partitions changed between kernel releases, breaking
the installer script in some subtle ways.)
Thanks for reporting it, and my apologies for the delay in finding a fix.
(Thanks also to sly for saying the right thing at the right time.)
