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

[Sven Luther]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:19:22PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> 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.

Please make sure that this is indeed a parted problem, and not a partman one,
as discussed on irc.

Friendly,

Sven Luther