https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364365 User fseidel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364365#c9 --- Comment #9 from Frank Seidel <fseidel@novell.com> 2008-02-27 09:10:17 MST --- (In reply to comment #8 from Casual J. Programmer)
As the message "unknown partition table" just references an absent partition table
No, that is wrong. A plane absent partition table does not lead to a "unknown partition table" message.
it has nothing to do with "garbage at 0x1be" nor does it hint to that end.
Of course the default logging isn't that detailed and in your case it definitly has to do with the unregular value at 0x1be.
If "garbage at 0x1be" is worth investigating, it should be worth it's own (error)message then.
No, "garbage at 0x1be" is the point of failure for your special mbr, but "unknown partition table" is imho perfectly valid in that case. Your partition table _is unknown_, so why should it tell anything different.
The way you point it out makes the message even more obscure. So why this should be "adequate" iyho is beyond my intellectual capacities. Please come up with something reasonable.
I hope the above made it mode clear.
Also XP will report a Diskette or MMC with partition table as "not formatted" and refuse to touch it.
XP also can cope with sd and mmc medias with and without a partition table on it. But anyway, what is valid: if this is a general point of problem with medias formated via XP it should be detected and handled accordingly. I will investigate if there is a general way to solve this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.