torsdag 15. juni 2006, 15:49, skrev Falko Trojahn: > Nils Olav Fossum schrieb: > > (im trying to find where the first erasing is done in the script..) > > It depends on the way you are doing the formatting and what is in > fdisk_cmds. Look for "#Partition the disk" in install.pl. > Usually - as stated in the documentation on > http://unattended.sourceforge.net/meta.php - > you have a fdisk_cmds line in your setup like this: > fdisk_cmds="fdisk /clear 1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1" > which only deletes partition no. 1, but perhaps not the whole > partition table. > > I'm doing it this way > http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04840. >html so fdisk to parted conversion under linux is out of the way. > > In my partition_cmds variable you see "parted mklabel msdos" which > according to > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_toc.html#TOC1 >6 means erasing all partitions from the partition table. >
thanks, I have some reading to do.. > > or, is it possible to 'patch' mbr' direct on disk? > > If you know what's the real reason for the problem with the > thinkpads ... Yep, parted writes 255 heads instead of 240.. _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
