On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:40:30AM +0300, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: > Hi > > I would have filled a bug report on your bug tracking system, but it > uses JavaScript, so I e-mail.
I has an email interface, simply send the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with : Package: parted Version: 1.6.24-1 or whatever. Mmm, maybe you are even not using debian, and thus this is the wrong mailing list, it is probable that you want to post to [email protected] or something similar. > I'm not sure if this bug is in parted, since parted and BIOS seem > to disagree about the disk geometry. > > System configuration: > parted 1.6.24 > linux 2.6.11.12 > disk Samsung Spinpoint SerialAta 80GB > Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0,0,0 - 9733,116,62 > BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 9733,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB. > > The following steps result in an assertion failure: > > mklabel msdos > > mkpart extended 0 -1 > > mkpart logical ext2 0 5gb > > mkpart logical ext2 5gb 5.5gb > Assertion (start <= end) at parted.c:251 in function > snap_to_boundaries() failed. > > After Ignoring or Cancelling: > Error: Can't have the end before the start! > > But in any case: > > print > Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 80GB > Disk label type: msdos > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 1kB 80GB 80GB extended > 5 32kB 5001MB 5001MB logical > 6 5001MB 5009MB 8193kB logical > > Reversing the order of the two mkpart logicals fixes the problem, but > the resulting partition table looks identical (in compact unit mode). > > Another assertion failure is triggered by: > > mklabel msdos > > mkpart extended 0 -1 > > mkpart logical ext2 0 3072mb > > mkpart logical ext2 3072mb 5120mb > Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at disk_dos.c:1962 in function > add_logical_part_metadata() failed. > > If printing is attempted, the same assertion fails again. > > Hope this was useful. I'm not a member of list, so please CC to me. Mmm, this is definitively an upstream issue, i will forward this to the right place. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
