[Parted-maintainers] Bug#443272: Partitions detected with mac-fdisk, but not with partman.

[Otavio Salvador]

Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam at plessy.org> writes:

> merge 354951 378593 388085 443272
> thanks
>
> Le Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 01:41:17PM +0100, Frans Pop a écrit :
>> On Monday 05 November 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> 
>> > Using /dev/sda
>> > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
>> > (parted) print
>> > Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition.
>> > Ignore/Cancel? i
>> 
>> This error must be what's causing partman to not recognize the disk.
>
> Unfortunately, I just realised I am not the first to report it… You can
> count on me to make tests : I really need linux on this computer.

Please, could you get your boot sector and send it to this bug report?
Following commant ought to be enough:

 dd if=/dev/sda of=sda_boot.dd bs=512 count=1

Thanks a lot.

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