Bug 513140

Summary:	Root partition is not always sda2
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Vladimir Romanov (RETIRED) <blueboar>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Alpha
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Vladimir Romanov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-06-13 17:53:35 UTC

From hb-install-alpha-disk.xml

>> For instance, to have the root partition (/dev/sda2 in our example) in ext4, 
>> you would use:

>> Code Listing 5.1: Applying a filesystem on a partition
>> # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

If user choose SRM variant, all is OK, root is /dev/sda2. But if user choose ARC/AlphaBIOS variant, /dev/sda2 is Linux SWAP, not root partition.

Same thing till end - swap not always /dev/sda1, mounting not always /dev/sda2 and so on.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Vladimir Romanov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-06-13 17:59:11 UTC

Small addition: in this file, near the end, in section of mounting, code listing "Mounting partitions" need to be changed to "Mounting partitiON" as only one root partition is mounted (although user can mount more than one if he does not use default partition scheme)

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-12-21 15:03:43 UTC

With the move to the wiki, I updated the use of root partitions. For some architectures I can't do anything except pick one (some architectures have different root partition selections based on the underlying platform) but in general it should be corrected.