Full explanation is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829960#c6
Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
>From 54bfe3fac90465b2b5150d8d8dac88511b869fd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fedora Ninjas <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:19:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gpt: Fix endianness issue when using pth->FirstUsableLBA. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> --- libparted/labels/gpt.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libparted/labels/gpt.c b/libparted/labels/gpt.c index 4c72cd2..3c26489 100644 --- a/libparted/labels/gpt.c +++ b/libparted/labels/gpt.c @@ -1792,12 +1792,12 @@ gpt_get_max_supported_partition_count (const PedDisk *disk, int *max_n) if (!_header_is_valid (disk, pth, 1)) { - pth->FirstUsableLBA = 34; + pth->FirstUsableLBA = PED_CPU_TO_LE64 (34); pth->SizeOfPartitionEntry = PED_CPU_TO_LE32 (sizeof (GuidPartitionEntry_t)); } - *max_n = (disk->dev->sector_size * (pth->FirstUsableLBA - 2) + *max_n = (disk->dev->sector_size * (PED_LE64_TO_CPU (pth->FirstUsableLBA)-2) / PED_LE32_TO_CPU (pth->SizeOfPartitionEntry)); pth_free (pth); return true; -- 1.7.10.1
