Package: gparted
Version: 0.0.8-1
Severity: important
Hi,
After setting up my partitions with gparted, I tried to install WinXP. WinXP
failed to boot with the error message "NTLDR is missing". After numerous retries
with slight changes and no success, I have found the answer in the README file
of the package ms-sys:
There have been reports about unbootable FAT32 partitions created with
"mformat
-F c:". One workaround is to use gnu parted to create the partition instead.
I recreated the FAT partition with parted and finally managed to install WinXP.
After this I have discovered that the BUGS section of man mkdosfs mentions:
mkdosfs can not create bootable filesystems. This isn't as easy as you
might think at first glance for various reasons and has been discussed
a lot already. mkdosfs simply will not support it ;)
I think gparted should use parted's method to create FAT filesystems instead of
using mkdosfs.
Thanks,
Zoltan
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Versions of packages gparted depends on:
ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-4 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2 2.6.1-1.2 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2 1:2.6.2-1.1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libparted1.6-13 1.6.24-4 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.16-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libuuid1 1.38-2 universally unique id library
ii menu 2.1.26 generates programs menu for all me
gparted recommends no packages.
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