Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "xerces8" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> The first 4 sectors are attached.
>
> Thanks!
> I'll take a look by Friday.
Thanks.
I did reproduce the failure (fdisk sees 2 partitions, parted sees just
one), using your MBR on a 0-extended loopback device.
However, that's not fair, since loopback doesn't work with partitions.
Then I put the boot sector on a USB key. fdisk still sees two:
$ fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 65 MB, 65986560 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 62 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 716 733168 6 FAT16
/dev/sdc2 717 979 269312 6 FAT16
but parted fails:
$ ./parted -m -s /dev/sdc p
Error: /dev/sdc: unrecognised disk label
[Exit 1]
I suspect that the above merely shows that parted
looks farther than the partition table, and attempts
to do some minimal verification. When (at least in my case)
it doesn't find anything sane beyond the partition table, it fails.
I'll investigate further next week.
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