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Re: A parted bug ??
From: |
Edward |
Subject: |
Re: A parted bug ?? |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:27:08 -0800 (PST) |
--- Szakacsits Szabolcs <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Edward wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if this is a parted bug.
> >
> > I had Windows 2000 on FAT32.
> > After I resize my fat32 boot partition with
> > parted(v1.6.16), windows 2000 can not be booted.
> > I checked BPB of fat32 bootsector, I found parted
> > change Sectors Per Track(offset 0x18) and Number
> of
> > Heads(offset 0x1A) to FF FF FF FF.
> > Then I modified the 4 bytes to 3F 00 FF 00 and
> windows
> > 2000 can be booted.
>
> This is horrible news. Fundamentally this problem
> keeps occuring for
> years and recently it started to cause major havoc
> for a lot of people.
> I believed it was fixed in 1.6.12.
>
> > Can anybody give me some suggestion? :p
>
> Andrew yesterday committed a new geometry detection
> code into the CVS,
> could you __PLEASE__ try it out?
>
> Unfortunately I don't know where the current CVS is,
> it's not listed on
> the Parted home page ...
>
> Google says it's at
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=parted
> but no source there ...
>
> I remember something about moving to Debian
> project's server ...
> ... keep googling ... yes, here are the
> instructions:
>
>
>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-06/msg00022.html
>
> However none of the given URL's in the email are
> reachable currently,
> but I hope it will work for you. Thanks!
>
> Szaka
>
>
Thanks Szaka.:D
I will try it..
Best Regards,
Edward
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