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Re: Problem running on USB flash device, Fedora Core 3
From: |
K.G. |
Subject: |
Re: Problem running on USB flash device, Fedora Core 3 |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:45:39 +0200 |
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:18:50 +0100 Chris Miles <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden ~]# parted /dev/sdb
> GNU Parted 1.6.15
> Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
>
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
> General Public License for more details.
> (parted) print
> You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following
> message:
>
> Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at disk_dos.c:495 in
> function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
> Ignore/Cancel? i
> You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following
> message:
>
> Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at disk_dos.c:495 in
> function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
> Ignore/Cancel? c
> Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
> Error: Can't have the end before the start!
> Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-1990.000 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.016 1989.999 primary fat16 boot
> (parted) quit
> Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
>
> address@hidden ~]# uname -a
> Linux j4-fc3.localdomain 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 #1 Fri Aug 26 23:27:26 EDT
> 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> address@hidden ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1990.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 2086 MB, 2086666240 bytes
> 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1990 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 * 1 1990 2037743+ 6 FAT16
>
> Command (m for help): x
>
> Expert command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1990 cylinders
>
> Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
> 1 80 1 1 0 63 32 964 32 4075487 06
> 2 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
>
> Expert command (m for help):
Hi,
Thank you for your report. This bug is fixed in
Parted 1.6.24 (source code :
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.6.24.tar.gz )
Guillaume Knispel