On 07.07.2009, at 14:08, Petr Uzel wrote:
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
Yes, out parted should sync GPT->MBR automatically.
Have you verified that it breaks on suse? I would assume it just
works :-).
Alex
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