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I booted from Warty live CD (debian sid based distro) and the kernel
(2.6) was able to detect
all partitions properly. I was able to mount all my partitions in -rw without any problems. Here is the partition table given by fdisk: Disk /dev/hda: 10.2 GB, 10262568960 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1247 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 266 2136613+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 269 1247 7863817+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 267 268 16065 6 FAT16 /dev/hda5 269 892 5012248+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 893 1247 2851506 b W95 FAT32 Partition table entries are not in disk order And this is the correct partition table With parted however, I got this: Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-9787.148 megabytes Disk label type: loop Minor Start End Filesystem Flags 1 0.000 9787.148 fat16 Which is incorrect. Thus one can conclude that the problem with partman lies in libparted. Also, when I used parted and selected /dev/hda1 (or any partitions
for
that matter), I get this: Disk geometry for /dev/hda1: 0.000-2086.536 megabytes Disk label type: loop Minor Start End Filesystem Flags 1 0.000 2086.536 fat32 If you refer to the partition table produced by fdisk (ie. the correct one), you would know that /dev/hda1 is indeed a 2GB fat32 partition, so parted is having no troubles detecting the size and type of the partition. Yet, it *did not* show the boot flag on the partition. |