setup-storage/parted problems with FAI 4.0.3 (also with 3.4.8ubuntu2)

[Thomas Neumann]

> On 09/06/2012 02:22 PM, Peter Langer wrote:
> I had the same problem. Probably You "preserve_always" e.g. partition 1
> (which has Windows 7 installed). The problem is that "preserve_always"
> don't mean "Don't touch partition 1" -- it means "Create partition 1
> with same size and type" (If I understand it right). So a new MBR is
> written to disk with a new disk-signatur and this is the reason why
> Windows 7 doesn't boot (The Windows 7 boot loader checks the
> disk-signature).
[..]
> Maybe somebody has a better solution?

Convince setup-storage that 'preserve_???' really means 'do not touch this
partition at all?

tschüß
thomas

P.S.: Uh. Oh. I can see where this is heading.