On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:45:16PM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
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> Here is the same patch, but this time against the website cvs.
Yes, the text is correct. I used your text to create another shorter
version that fits in one paragraph.
Anton Zinoviev
--- errata-orig.wml Sat Dec 4 14:23:13 2004
+++ errata.wml Sat Dec 4 14:23:01 2004
@@ -43,11 +43,13 @@
As a workaround, use a different guided partitioning profile or
partition your disk manually.
</li>
- <li><b>LVM failure on Sparc32 (at least).</b>
- If you want to create LVM volume groups, the physical volumes must not
- reside at the beginning of the disk, or else activating new logical
- volumes within the volume group will fail. This is due to some
- unforeseen quirks in Sun disk labels.
+ <li><b>Erased partition table on Sparc (at least).</b>
+ On Sparc (and other machines with Sun disk label)
+ users may <strong>not</strong> create swap space partitions,
+ or partitions for LVM or RAID, at the <em>beginning</em> of the
+ disk. When users do this, the partition table resides in the
+ first partition and will be subsequently completely erased when
+ this partition is used.
</li>
<li><b>2.6 install have the potential to mess up Windows
partitioning.</b>
The fixes of the 2.6 CHS issue in parted are apparently
