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Re: A parted bug ??
From: |
Edward |
Subject: |
Re: A parted bug ?? |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:09:38 -0800 (PST) |
--- Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0100, Szakacsits
> Szabolcs 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.
>
> Notice that a debian bug report against the parted
> seems to suggest that
> putting the drive in LBA mode in the BIOS fixes
> these issues, and that they
> only appear when CHS is selected in the BIOS.
>
> That said, my knowledge of broken x86 hardware is
> rather abysmal, so i could
> be speaking nonsense here. A simple solution is to
> just erase windows though
> :)
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
Hi~
I checked my BIOS setting, HD access mode is auto.
I changed it to LBA mode, the result is the same.
However, thank you for your suggestion. :D
Best Regards,
Edward
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Re: A parted bug ??, Sven Luther, 2004/11/11
Re: A parted bug ??, Edward, 2004/11/11
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