Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

2015-06-17 Thread A Mennucc1
Warning to anyone reading this bug report! Il 17/06/2015 20:00, A Mennucc1 ha scritto: I used the command # dd conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=a20_Lime_debian_3.4.90_release_3.img bs=446 count=1 to delete the boot code. the above command (i

Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

2015-06-17 Thread A Mennucc1
Il 17/06/2015 19:24, A Mennucc1 ha scritto: > here is the MBR. for real ;-> mbr.gz Description: application/gzip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

2015-06-17 Thread Phil Susi
On 6/17/2015 1:24 PM, A Mennucc1 wrote: here is the MBR. You forgot to attach the file. I also have a proposal. When parted opens a disk, it should both check if the whole disk is formatted as a VFAT (or other) volume, and check if there is a partition table of some kind. In case that both ch

Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

2015-06-17 Thread A Mennucc1
You are right. I used the command # dd conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=a20_Lime_debian_3.4.90_release_3.img bs=446 count=1 to delete the boot code. Now the wheezy version of parted reports: > No Implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries. This is still unsupported. while th J

Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

2015-06-17 Thread A Mennucc1
here is the MBR. I also have a proposal. When parted opens a disk, it should both check if the whole disk is formatted as a VFAT (or other) volume, and check if there is a partition table of some kind. In case that both checks are true, it should stop and warn the user that the disk structure is a

Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

2015-06-15 Thread Phil Susi
On 6/15/2015 5:06 AM, A Mennucc wrote: The partition table of this image file cannot be properly read or modified with parted. Older versions of parted crash on this image file. Newer versions report a the partition table is dangerously different from the real one, so an user that uses parted to

Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

2015-06-15 Thread A Mennucc
Package: parted Version: 3.2-7 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the following bug happens when 'parted' tries to analyze to the image file https://www.olimex.com/wiki/images/b/b4/A20_OLinuxino_Micro_debian_34_90_release_10.torrent that contains the operating system (Debian Wheezy) fo