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Nils Olav Fossum schrieb: > 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.. Did you see this thread from Christian Fischer? http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05236.html Just patch /etc/master (I can give you access to an iso with patched /etc/master, too) and try things in /z/site/postinst.sh Falko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRJFyKIkcY98goEs/AQJ7Cgf/efMoyfWhiPQJjAtf36aE4fAaPEgFxYxs iVtd0guSGmYFHsgcBLun3PqVj6WiZsiMqhm9pRkVMR2ubORH56fnz/0jU5tPg6+y 56EkBHMM0M/tONkQMIW0u0XMP6cTt+ipclpzUlf8Gcn5vM3K4NJcGhXF+L1vVE/B T+fD3ki6fK6bcHFbb5P3ryi0K3DHgcfFiHD7yYeFAeza9bLxcBKJ/Xb1aJ0AVE7J 5oBEYRS3Wih45latxhIV6qBUZc8nig+dqXnlHge4yaAV6n4k3pUAQWo/pbSukeS1 NrgVX204kkEAXQpZBst9bSbluQ9WqcV/QoyKCbK+T6io7MHyB8+wpw== =vbX6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
