[Parted-maintainers] Bug#283303: Sun disklabel miswritten when swap partition is at the beginning

[Joshua Kwan]

Package: parted
Severity: important

Hi,

I set up in d-i on my 2GB disk:

128M - swap
the rest of it - LVM

It was written as

Disk geometry for /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/disc: 0.000-2033.824 megabytes
Disk label type: loop
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
1          0.000   2033.824  linux-swap  

as far as parted can tell.

Dmesg on the next boot says:

SCSI device sdb: 4165272 512-byte hdwr sectors (2133 MB)
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0: unknown partition table

and I was unable to boot the system because the LVM partition
disappeared.

Thanks
Josh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (499, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-rc2-mm3
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)