Hello,
I have serious problems with the use of parted in unatteded Linux boot
disk.
Usually I install unattended on pre-partitioned hard disks, either by a
previous version of Windows or using sfdisk (our Linux deployment usually
runs before the Windows deployment :-) .
However, when I select, for instance, to use all the disk in unattended,
parted generates an invalid partition tables -- in the eye of Partition
Magic, which refuses to run at all then. Same for Win98 fdisk. Linux can
access the partition with no problem, however, today I noticed that parted
created a partition without a "lba" flag, whereas the Win98 fdisk does.
Also, the Win98 fdisk partition started at, what parted displays as
"32KB", whereas parted uses a start sector of 0.
I have this problem on more than one computer with different Boards and
HDs, e.g. a Dell, an IBM, some nonames using ASUS and Gigabyte boards.
Also, when I order parted to create a fat32 file system on a partition
(e.g. mkfs 4 fat32), and does not format the partition in DOSemu,
winnt.exe dies with a division by zero right after it copied 100% of the
files (some secs before the reboot). -- No issue as to format in DOSemu is
no timing problem, I just wanted to point this out.
Also, is there a way to have unattended mark an already existing partion
as target? Because if the partion is formatted as NTFS, DOSemu does not
seem to use it, regardless if format is actived.
--> That way I noticed above behaviour, as I thought I can skip the DOS
based format, when I invoke parted mkfs anyway.
Would it be beneficial to drop parted and use sfdisk instead?
IMHO it offers more fine grained control over the partition tables, e.g.
which slot to use and direct manipulation of partition ID.
Bye,
--
Steffen Kaiser
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