On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:05, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > The screwups in my cases were nearly identical, starting with its > > > ignoring the drives existing partition table, making up its own > > > tables up out of whole cloth, and putting /boot in /dev/hda5, which I > > > don't believe works, ever. > > Please post how to repeat this. I've never seen it ignore existing > > partitions unless you told it to remove them. > > I think he's talking about the (now-fixed) parted + 2.6 kernel bug. I thought that one miscalculated sizes so even though it attempted to keep old partitions, they didn't work afterwords. Regardless, if this is fixed, it's time to move on. If there is still a repeatable bug we need to see how to repeat it. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx