Control: reassign -1 partman-auto Control: found -1 153 Control: severity -1 important (affects less-common file systems and only for a ports architecture)
> On 24 Sep 2020, at 22:52, Catherine A. Frederick / mptcultist > <agrecascino...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20200314 > Severity: grave > User: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: sparc64 > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org > > Currently, the debian installer uses the force(-f) switch on mkfs to > make sure that mkfs doesn't bail creating the first partition on the > disk with an error stating it found a partition label where the > partition start is. This behavior works fine for ext2, which starts > with 2 empty blocks, but for other filesystems like XFS the partition > label is immediately trashed(can be observed by parted reporting the > label type with "loop"). This location was apparently necessary for > SILO, and it always functioned as the first partition created by > guided partitioning was always ext-default and boot first, but now > that debian-sparc64 uses GRUB2 this _probably_ isn't necessary. > > In manual partitioning the behavior is trivially replicable by > creating a first partition with an XFS filesystem, where upon choosing > "beginning" for the location of the new filesystem the start is placed > at 0. When formatting happens after confirming this setup, the disk > label is promptly trashed and the system is rendered unbootable. > > src: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/sundisklabels.html >
