[parted-devel] Re: Parted fails to read "linux-style" BSD disklabel on alpha

[Harley D. Eades III]

Emmanuel Kasper <kdev at no-log.org> writes:

> Otavio Salvador a écrit :
> > Emmanuel Kasper <kdev at no-log.org> writes:
> >
> >>Hello
> >>While testing the new debian installer for etch I noticed that the
> >>installer did not see the partitions I wanted to use.
> >>I compiled parted 1.70 ang got the same bug.
> > have you tested our 1.7.1-2 package in sid?
> >
> 
> I build 1.7.1-2 from
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/parted/parted_1.7.1.orig.tar.gz
> with debian patches and got the same error:
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/parted /dev/hda
> GNU Parted 1.7.1
> Using /dev/hda
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) print
> Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
> (parted)
> Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary
> 
> This bug might affects sparc64 which also uses pseudo BSD disklabel
> for its partition table.
The bsdlabel code in parted is foobar at the moment.  I started
fixing it yesterday and should have it working either today or
tomorrow.

Cheers
Harley