fat_bootsector_read()

[Matt Davis]

While debugging ticket #14.  Although I have yet to recreate the bug,
I started debugging why the fs name does not appear for certain
cfdisked drives.

fat_bootsector_read() returns all zeros to the buffer.
The _device_seek() is seeking to the proper location, and there is
actually data in that location, which I have confirmed via 'dd' (with
appropriate bootsector signature)

Is this some oddity with qemu and virtual disks?  Fdisk and cfdisk
read the partition's boot sector fine.  It seeks to sector 63, sucks
in 512b of bootsector data.  And read returns sucessfully (512b read).
The data it copies into diobuf is 0x0 for 512 bytes.  I do not have a
spare drive lying around, (although I can try to pick one up this
week) to compare against.  Sounds to me if qemu is doing something
funky.  But that's just some speculation right now.  Although, parted
does read other partitions fine.

address@hidden parted /dev/hda p

Model: QEMU HARDDISK (ide)
Disk /dev/hda: 85.9GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system      Flags
1      32.3kB  49.4MB  49.3MB  primary
2      49.4MB  30.0GB  30.0GB  primary
3      30.0GB  75.3GB  45.3GB  primary  ext2             boot
4      75.3GB  76.3GB  1028MB  primary  linux-swap(new)


-Matt (Enferex)