Re: parted's cp command for FAT32, and LBA/CHS/NTLDR missing woes

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > Irrelevant. Bootloaders, mini-drivers are free to ignore LBA flag for
> > whatever many reasons.
> 
> The Microsoft FAT bootloaders respect the LBA flag, however.  At least,
> all the versions I have reverse engineered do, and I haven't seen
> any evidence to the contrary.

If you can't reproduce then google or read the reports people write about
recovering from boot problems using FAT32 with LBA flag set when they use

      sfdisk -d device | sfdisk --no-reread -H{255,240,etc} device

The above command only changes the CHS. If you were right then the above
wouldn't work.
 
> The NTFS ones don't always.

The issue is filesystem independent.

        Szaka