Hi
I tried to add the message below to bug #14(wrongly identify a 163.9G disk as a
single
fat16 partition) in trak only to get this message:
500 Internal Server Error (Submission rejected as potential spam)
So I'll post it here in the hope it gets to someone.
Andy
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I had this problem with my laptop and fixed it.
print in Parted reported that my laptop had a disk with one 80GB fat16
partition with a label type of loop.
After an upgrade to version 1.8.8 of parted did not fix it; I though
this might have something to do with having had Smart Boot Manager
installed in my MBR, later over written with grub. So I zeroed out the
first half of the MBR (so not to overwrite my partition table) and
reinstalled grub.
I did the the following very carefully:
dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsector.backup count=1 bs=512 # backup just in case
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=256 # zero out first 256 bytes
grub
root (hd0,3) # reinstall boot loader
setup (hd0)
Checked that my system still boots!
After this Parted reported my disk correctly with label type of msdos
Hope the helps.
I'll have a go at attaching the backup of the old boot sector in a
moment.
Running parted 1.8.8, kernel 2.6.22.14 on Slackware current.
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