https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364365 User casualprogrammer@yahoo.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364365#c299704 Summary: Change message "unknown partition table" to something less irritating Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: casualprogrammer@yahoo.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer As learned from Bug #299704 and Bug #300894 as well as http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/ there does not have to be a partition table for media < 2GB which includes Floppies and many flash media. While it seems reasonable to check for a (valid) partition table, I suggest that the reporting is changed to something less confusing than "unknown partition table", as this implies that there is something wrong with the media, while in fact, it just doesn't need a partition table and therefore has none. In the cases of bugs 299704 and 300894 looking at the MBR after having read http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/ makes it obvious that there is no partition table at all, as the space used for it contains messages. So the message "unknown partition table" should be reserved for cases, where a structure is present that resembles a partition table, but has a format not known to Linux. In cases where the partition table is absent because its not needed, the message should either be suppressed or worded accordingly. As people (especially when not power users) tend to get quite upset when they are confronted with missing or corrupted partition tables this should be fixed quite soon. -- 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.