Re: Invalid partition table - recursive partition (was: Re: bug detected)

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Matt Chapman wrote:

> > > Whatever happened came only from booting with the win xp install disc.
> >
> > Yes, that's the case. But Parted should still handle it a bit more
> > gracefully, I think.
> 
> I see. What more could parted possibly do? 

 1) shouldn't crash

 2) shouldn't report internal error, only the "invalid partition table"

 3) should be able to show the current partition table as fdisk does

 4) should let the user fix the broken partition table

>  (note that I never did try the most recent version.)

If you could send the output of 'sfdisk -dx /dev/hda' then we could try it
out.

        Szaka