On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 05:14:41PM -0500, Richard Cavell wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to add a ticket with this text but I keep getting an internal server > error, so here it is: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586910 > > > Sometimes when GParted is used to modify partitions on a Mac, it changes the > GPT but not the MBR. So the MBR does not correctly reflect the new partition > map. Since the GRUB bootloader relies on the MBR being correct, this renders > Linux completely unable to boot. It also makes Windows incapable of booting. > This bug is well documented on Apple architectures. I don't know whether it > exists outside of Apple. After using GParted, it is necessary to run a > utility > program to 'resync' the MBR and GPT records of the partition map.
There was some discussion [1] about this on parted-devel, but is seems that it ended without solution - as far as I understand it there is no easy one that would work in all situations. SuSE has a patch from [2] for some time. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02045.html [2] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 HTH -- Best regards / s pozdravem Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [email protected] Lihovarská 1060/12 http://www.suse.cz 190 00 Prague 9 Czech Republic _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
