Hello, I'm writing this to both lists, as I saw some occurences of this problem on both.
We ran into the infamous "NTLDR not found" problem when using recent Unattended snapshots. We nearly changed everything in the Linux boot disk, but nothing helped. The old Unattended worked fine, the CVS version didn't. True SATA disks (sdX devices) seem to be unaffeced, but IDE-emulated SATA disks or true IDE disks (hdX devices) seem to be affected *sometimes*, not on all machines. After some debugging we found out that the culprit seems to lie in parted. Parted up to version 1.6.22 works just fine. It prints out a warning message program parted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it ti SG_IO but it works just fine. parted beginning with 1.6.23 does *not* work fine. It creates faulty partition tables that lead to corrupt Windows installations. Even cfdisk or fdisk print out that the partition seems to be NC (non compatible). I read that Patrick tried to fix this by the /proc/ide/hdX/settings device, but in our case, it does not seem to help. Patrick, are there any news to this? Can I help you in debugging, or is this a truely parted-related problem you can't do anything against? Thanks Florian _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
