Re: A parted bug ??

[Edward]

--- Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0100, Szakacsits
> Szabolcs wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Edward wrote:
> > 
> > > I am not sure if this is a parted bug.
> > > 
> > > I had Windows 2000 on FAT32.
> > > After I resize my fat32 boot partition with
> > > parted(v1.6.16), windows 2000 can not be booted.
> > > I checked BPB of fat32 bootsector, I found
> parted
> > > change Sectors Per Track(offset 0x18) and Number
> of
> > > Heads(offset 0x1A) to FF FF FF FF.
> > > Then I modified the 4 bytes to 3F 00 FF 00 and
> windows
> > > 2000 can be booted.
> > 
> > This is horrible news. Fundamentally this problem
> keeps occuring for 
> > years and recently it started to cause major havoc
> for a lot of people. 
> > I believed it was fixed in 1.6.12.
> 
> Notice that a debian bug report against the parted
> seems to suggest that
> putting the drive in LBA mode in the BIOS fixes
> these issues, and that they
> only appear when CHS is selected in the BIOS.
> 
> That said, my knowledge of broken x86 hardware is
> rather abysmal, so i could
> be speaking nonsense here. A simple solution is to
> just erase windows though
> :)
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
> 

Hi~
I checked my BIOS setting, HD access mode is auto.
I changed it to LBA mode, the result is the same.
However, thank you for your suggestion. :D

Best Regards, 
Edward


                
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