Hello, which version of the boot media (CD/Disk/TFTP-Image) are you using? I'm having the same problems since I recompiled (with customized paths) the boot cd from CVS two weeks ago (the current stable 4.6 wouldn't compile, but I don't remember exactly what the problem was right now). With the stable 4.6 release (and entering the paths manually), this does not occur. Creating the partition manually with parted works. I noticed something similar like you: choosing one of the automatic partitioning schemes (like "use all disk") makes parted create a primary fat32 partition from 0 to 4000MB. However, starting parted manually and creating a partition with "mkpartfs primary fat32 0% 4GB" creates a partition from 32KB to 3997MB, and this works. So it looks to me the problem is not with parted, but with the way it's invoked.
Bye, Andreas Steffen Kaiser schrieb: > 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, > ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
