The system I'm using is a Dell server, originally purchased with Red Hat
Linux 7.1 (may have been 7.0, I don't recall for sure) installed at the
factory. I did not presume that they would have loaded any Windows
software on a new system with new disks purchased this way.
Is there a way to "write zeros", as it were, or otherwise fix this,
without destroying the current installation?
Could you also tell me what formatting tools would be libparted based?
Or suggest how I would go about finding out?
Thanks,
Bob
Kay Sievers wrote:
I've found that the problem appears to be related to vol_id failing to
find proper information for my root device, /dev/sda1. I've run the
commands 'e2label', '/lib/udev/vol_id', 'mount' and 'fdisk' with the
following results:
Never use any of the all broken mkfs* tools without writing zeros to the
start and the end of the partition before applying a different format.
Overwrite at least 64kb. (Sane formatting applications like everything that
is libparted based don't need this.)
Kay
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