On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:28:22PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> +      *
> +      * Consider a bad value here to be a warning to support dd-ing
> +      * an image from a smaller disk to a bigger disk.
>        */
>       if (ret == GPT_MBR_PROTECTIVE) {
>               sz = le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba);
>               if (sz != (uint32_t) total_sectors - 1 && sz != 0xFFFFFFFF)
> -                     ret = 0;
> +                     pr_warn("%s: mbr size mismatch (%u != %u)\n", __func__,
> +                             sz, (uint32_t)((uint32_t) total_sectors - 1));
>       }

 I did the same change to util-linux v2.24 fdisk, so you can use the fdisk
 to update your protective MBR and boot without warnings.

    Karel

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