Hopefully this bug report will help you. Please read attached file, best viewed in MS Wordpad. Also, I used a Win95 boot disk with fdisk to format /dev/hda.
If you know a quick fix to using parted to mkfs under my situation, I would appreciate hearing your ideas. Thanks.
Chris
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Bug found as follows: Using /dev/hda (parted) print You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to [email protected] containing the version (1.6.15), and the following message:
Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Ignore/Cancel? i You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to [email protected] containing the version (1.6.15), and the following message: Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Ignore/Cancel? I Floating point exception [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30738677760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3737 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 256 3737 27969165 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 256 638 3076416 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 639 1658 8193118+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 1659 2423 6144831 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 2424 2513 722893+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda9 2514 3061 4401778+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda10 3062 3078 136521 6 FAT16 /dev/hda11 3079 3168 722893+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda12 3169 3721 4441941 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda13 3722 3737 128488+ 6 FAT16 Using /dev/hda (parted) help check MINOR do a simple check on the filesystem cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR copy filesystem to another partition help [COMMAND] prints general help, or help on COMMAND mklabel LABEL-TYPE create a new disklabel (partition table) mkfs MINOR FS-TYPE make a filesystem FS-TYPE on partititon MINOR mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END make a partition with a filesystem move MINOR START END move partition MINOR name MINOR NAME name partition MINOR NAME print [MINOR] display the partition table, or a partition quit exit program rescue START END rescue a lost partition near START and END resize MINOR START END resize filesystem on partition MINOR rm MINOR delete partition MINOR select DEVICE choose the device to edit set MINOR FLAG STATE change a flag on partition MINOR (parted) mkfs 11 swap You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to [email protected] containing the version (1.6.15), and the following message: Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Ignore/Cancel? I You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to [email protected] containing the version (1.6.15), and the following message: Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Ignore/Cancel? I Floating point exception
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