Hi, I just took a look to the ipod_boot_sector you sent and the only thing I'm sure about is that Apple completely messed up the format...
This is a mix of an MBR and a DBR describing a FAT32... I've never seen something so crazy before. That's quite like mixing a container and its content. Parted rejects it because it checks for "FAT" at well known places of the sector to check if the sector is not indeed a DBR instead of an MBR, because another brillant guy from MS choose to use the same signature for both, and this check can't be removed because this would be dangerous for some USB keys with no partition table. Even the MBR part and the DBR part of the mix are full of mistakes : wrong endianess in a short indicates that sectors are 2 bytes length instead of 512, and the iPod system partition has ID 0 which should only be used for free entries! I won't fix anything to make Parted works with Dos formated iPod unless Apple put some specs somewhere, because what they did is clearly not an msdos disklabel anymore even if it still works on some lazy systems. As there doesn't seem to be any place to ask these kind of questions to Apple, this is quite unlikely to happen. Cheers, Guillaume Knispel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
