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Re: A parted bug ??
From: |
Szakacsits Szabolcs |
Subject: |
Re: A parted bug ?? |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:14:55 +0100 (MET) |
On 11 Nov 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Edward <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Why is Parted modifying the BPB in the FAT32 partition?
Ahh, I didn't notice it was the BPB. Without carefully reading the email
(it was early morning) I thought it's the usual partition table issue.
So probably the unbootable Win issue isn't horrible, only more subtle.
> Am I the only person who thinks this is crazy?
No, you're not alone :-)
Szaka
- CVS repository information, (continued)
Re: A parted bug ??, Sven Luther, 2004/11/11
Re: A parted bug ??, Edward, 2004/11/11
Re: A parted bug ??, Patrick J. LoPresti, 2004/11/11
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Re: A parted bug ??, Andrew Clausen, 2004/11/18