Re: A parted bug ??

[Edward]

--- Szakacsits Szabolcs <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Edward wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure if this is a parted bug.
> > 
> > I had Windows 2000 on FAT32.
> > After I resize my fat32 boot partition with
> > parted(v1.6.16), windows 2000 can not be booted.
> > I checked BPB of fat32 bootsector, I found parted
> > change Sectors Per Track(offset 0x18) and Number
> of
> > Heads(offset 0x1A) to FF FF FF FF.
> > Then I modified the 4 bytes to 3F 00 FF 00 and
> windows
> > 2000 can be booted.
> 
> This is horrible news. Fundamentally this problem
> keeps occuring for 
> years and recently it started to cause major havoc
> for a lot of people. 
> I believed it was fixed in 1.6.12.
>  
> > Can anybody give me some suggestion? :p
> 
> Andrew yesterday committed a new geometry detection
> code into the CVS, 
> could you __PLEASE__ try it out?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't know where the current CVS is,
> it's not listed on
> the Parted home page ...
> 
> Google says it's at
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=parted
> but no source there ...
> 
> I remember something about moving to Debian
> project's server ...
> ... keep googling ... yes, here are the
> instructions:
> 
>  
>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-06/msg00022.html
> 
> However none of the given URL's in the email are
> reachable currently, 
> but I hope it will work for you. Thanks!
> 
>       Szaka
> 
> 

Thanks Szaka.:D
I will try it..

Best Regards,
Edward

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