[26595] in Athena Bugs
Subtle logic error in installer's analysis of pre-existing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Sep 12 16:35:55 2005
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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It took me a moment to realize that there was a bug here:
Repeat by:
Install Athena, blow Athena away with Windows, but leave the
/boot partition as the first partition on the disk.
Actual behavior:
The installer sees the /boot partition, and rather than realizing
its part of a normal Athena disk, says there's something already there
and asks if you want to boot it. (I got confused and answered that yes
it should boot this as a windows partition. I didn't read carefully
which partition it was talking about, and then when it went to ask me
about partition 2 with windows, I got it.)
I restarted the install with manual partitioning, and answered
explicitly that /boot was on sda1. Then it proceeded as I originally
expected, to ask me about special booting partition 2.
Expected behavior:
Either offer me a way to go back and re-select the grub stuff,
or maybe be a bit smarter about noticing that a tiny linux partition
really wants to be /boot even though it comes discontinuously with the
other Athena-created partitions.
Wierd aspect:
The partition creation code CORRECTLY noticed there was a small /boot
partition and didn't create a second one. It was just in the "ask for
special grub consideration of a pre-existing partition" that didn't
realize it was gonna be /boot.
-wdc
