Autopartitioning.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Feb 19 14:23:00 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 20:17 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>The bit in partitions.py to make isBootable() true on the bootstrap
>partition doesn't seem to work, which is why the bootstrap partition
>still isn't first. Dunno why. 
>
>If you hack it to set numDrives=-1 for Apple Bootstrap even when it's
>not bootable, you still end up with the bootstrap after the rootfs.
>Again, I don't know why.
>
>If you delete all old partitions, it doesn't realise that partition #1
>on a Mac is actually the partition table itself, so it's going to get
>confused when it tries to create another partition #1. We possibly want
>to fix doClearPartAction() to leave the partition table (partition 1)
>alone.
>
>If you tell it to delete only Linux partitions, it doesn't recognise
>your original bootstrap partition as such, so it creates another. That
>wants fixing too.

All that lot is fixed, and autopartitioning on the Mac now seems to work
correctly. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121266

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dwmw2





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