[parted-devel] changes in 1.6.23 regarding disk geometry

[Otavio Salvador]

Florian Effenberger <floeff at arcor.de> writes:

> Hi Otavio,
>
>> You should be able to switch to 1.7.1 with just few modification, if
>> any, in application that's using the API. If you have problems to
>> figure out how to do that you can ask me in private and I can help
>> you.
>
> thanks for that generous offer, would like to take it! :-)
>
> I'm fairly new to this HDD/EDD geometry problematic, and came across
> this while using Unattended (http://unattended.sf.net) for unattended
> installation of Windows workstations.
>
> parted is being called via a script there to create the MBR and the
> FAT partition (that later is being converted to NTFS by the Windows
> setup). Up to 1.6.22 it works just fine, beginnin with 1.6.23 it does
> not work anymore, the partition table gets created wrong (cfdisk shows
> the "NC" for noncompatible). I also tried using 1.7.1, but it doesn't
> seem to cure.

Right so the bug isn't on Unattended but in parted itself.

> I don't think Unattended uses the API, but rather the scripting
> facility of parted, so I'm stuck with that.

Yes.

> May I send you the code that invokes parted, so you can look what
> could need a change?

The best way to handle this, in case of it's being use the scripting
facility is to make a script that reproduce the problem for us. Doing
that, we can reproduce it and try to identify what's going on and to
try to fix the remaining issues.

Like Leslie said dig into the Unattended if it's not just update the
API might be very difficult due the need time to understand how it
works at all and might be eaiser if you could help us doing what I
suggested above.

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