[Parted-maintainers] Bug#487833: parted: disable pc98 partition tables on powerpc

[Colin Watson]

Package: parted
Version: 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch intrepid

Hi,

I found (a while back, so I'm afraid I don't have sample partition
tables to hand at the moment) that the partition table on Cell platforms
was sometimes misdetected as pc98. It seems that it should be safe to
disable pc98 partition tables on powerpc; they're rare to start with,
and I think it's very unlikely that anyone will ever want to use one on
powerpc.

The attached patch does this, and has been in Ubuntu for a while now
without any problems I know of.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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