Can we update belenix.org with this package until the next rev of BeleniX is out?
~Joe On 01-Aug-07, at 9:56 AM, Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 8/1/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote: >> Hey Anil, >> >> All that fdisk does, is to print the partition table information >> present >> in the MBR. If the MBR on the USB doesn't contain a valid partition >> table at 0x1BE - Garbage In, Garbage Out. >> >> Here is a test I just did on my USB Key: >> >> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c7t0d0p0 bs=512 count=1 >> 1+0 records in >> 1+0 records out >> # fdisk -W - c7t0d0p0 | tail -1 >> * Id Act Bhead Bsect Bcyl Ehead Esect Ecyl Rsect >> Numsect >> >> This is definitely not flaky behaviour from fdisk. So what exactly >> are >> you using the information from 'fdisk -W' for ? >> > > Thanks Ananth, > > I think we now nailed the Bug. The Rsect value is used to calculate > the size of the USB, and this wont work on unformatted drives. We go > on to format it as ufs (using fdisk -B) later on in the script. that > is what was causing the error. I moved it up before size calculation. > > Fixed the bug and added a -debug swich that will allow for easy > debugging. The new usbdump (v1.3) is linked. Anyone who faces errors > should boot into belenix, replace usbdump with this version in > /usr/bin and run it. > > http://blogs.sun.com/anilg/resource/usbdump > > Cheers > Anil > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
