Bug#637572: [Gptfdisk-general] Bug#637572: gdisk: fails to write protective MBR

2011-08-25 Thread Rod Smith
On 08/24/2011 02:08 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: (replying to myself because I seem to have lost your message, apologies Rob) Arno Schuring (aelschur...@hotmail.com on 2011-08-16 00:55 +0200): Hi, I've taken a (cursory) look at the diffs, version 0.7's MBR is always all-zeroes. I did get to try t

Bug#637572: gdisk: fails to write protective MBR

2011-08-24 Thread Arno Schuring
(replying to myself because I seem to have lost your message, apologies Rob) Arno Schuring (aelschur...@hotmail.com on 2011-08-16 00:55 +0200): > Hi, > > > I've taken a (cursory) look at the diffs, version 0.7's MBR is always > all-zeroes. I did get to try these disks on i386 as well, and there

Bug#637572: [Gptfdisk-general] Bug#637572: gdisk: fails to write protective MBR

2011-08-15 Thread Rod Smith
On 08/15/2011 06:55 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: Hi, Enclosed are the dumps, They are all created in the same way: # gdisk /dev/sdX [..] Command (? for help): b Enter backup filename to save: sdX-0.N.gpt The dumps do not change if I recreate the protective MBR (x-n) before dumping. And with versi

Bug#637572: gdisk: fails to write protective MBR

2011-08-15 Thread Guillaume Delacour
Upstream request a copy of the MBR to try to reproduce your issue. Could you provide this attached to this bug ? This can be made by using "b" option (called back up GPT) in gdisk. After, firsts attempts to reproduce this bug, it could be an issue with the arm binary version (unreproducible on x86

Bug#637572: gdisk: fails to write protective MBR

2011-08-15 Thread Guillaume Delacour
forwarded 637572 "http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27947780"; thanks Hello, I've forwarded this to upstream. Le vendredi 12 août 2011 à 19:38 +0200, aelschur...@hotmail.com a écrit : > Package: gdisk > Version: 0.7.2-1 > Severity: normal > > It appears that the new gdisk re

Bug#637572: gdisk: fails to write protective MBR

2011-08-12 Thread aelschuring
Package: gdisk Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: normal It appears that the new gdisk release confuses itself when it needs to write a protective MBR: === # gdisk /dev/sde GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.7.2 Partition table scan: MBR: not present BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Fo