Error reading partition table on a USB memory stick

[Derek Broughton]

I got the following error using parted.  It's not _really_ parted's fault - 
without the slightest idea what I was doing, I tried to make a boot sector on 
a USB memory stick and obviously corrupted it.  None of the partition 
programs seem to have a good idea what to do with it now :-)

derek
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Using /dev/sdb
(parted) p
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.20), and the following 
message:

Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) 
at ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:578 in function probe_partition_for_geom() 
failed.
Ignore/Cancel? i
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.20), and the following 
message:

Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) 
at ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:578 in function probe_partition_for_geom() 
failed.
Ignore/Cancel? c
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-121.874 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.001    121.874  primary   fat16       boot