On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 02:43:49PM +0100, Zoltan Ivanfi wrote: >Package: gparted >Version: 0.0.8-1 >Severity: important > >Hi, > >After setting up my partitions with gparted, I tried to install WinXP. WinXP >failed to boot with the error message "NTLDR is missing". After numerous >retries >with slight changes and no success, I have found the answer in the README file >of the package ms-sys: > > There have been reports about unbootable FAT32 partitions created with > "mformat > -F c:". One workaround is to use gnu parted to create the partition instead. > >I recreated the FAT partition with parted and finally managed to install WinXP. > >After this I have discovered that the BUGS section of man mkdosfs mentions: > > mkdosfs can not create bootable filesystems. This isn't as easy as you > might think at first glance for various reasons and has been discussed > a lot already. mkdosfs simply will not support it ;) > >I think gparted should use parted's method to create FAT filesystems instead of >using mkdosfs. > >Thanks, > >Zoltan
Thank you for this bug report. Please try gparted 0.3.3-1 which was recently uploaded to sid. >-- System Information: >Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (50, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable') >Architecture: i386 (i686) >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash >Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-9-686 >Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU (charmap=ISO-8859-2) > >Versions of packages gparted depends on: >ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su >ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit >ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an >ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-4 GCC support library >ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.3-1 The GLib library of C routines >ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2 2.6.1-1.2 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( >ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface >ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2 1:2.6.2-1.1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared >ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio >ii libparted1.6-13 1.6.24-4 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s >ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.16-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ >ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 >ii libuuid1 1.38-2 universally unique id library >ii menu 2.1.26 generates programs menu for all me > >gparted recommends no packages. > >-- no debconf information Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal
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