[Bug 220839] New: GNU parted doesn't have dual GPT/DOS partition table support
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 Summary: GNU parted doesn't have dual GPT/DOS partition table support Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Beta 2 plus Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: olh@novell.com ReportedBy: agruen@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de CC: gregkh@novell.com, rguenther@novell.com Macintosh machines use the EFI bootloader with GPT partition tables. Primarily for Windows support, MacOS supports a dual GPT/DOS partition scheme in which a DOS partition table is created that mirrors the GPT partition table as well as possible (at most four primary partitions; no extended partitions possible; first primary partition reserved for EFI). The mixed GPT/DOS partition setup is useful for dual-booting MacOS and Linux: grub (version 1, the only usable version to date) doesn't support GPT partition tables, and relies on a DOS partition table to exist. Parted supports GPT partiton tables, but not the dual GPT/DOS partition scheme. Therefore, whenever parted modifies the GPT partition table, it wipes out the DOS partition table. There is an external tool, gptsync, which creates a dual GPT/DOS partition table from a GPT partition table. This tool can be used to fix things up again after parted. It would be very nice if parted supported the dual GPT/DOS partition scheme. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 olh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Comment #1 from olh@novell.com 2006-11-16 04:23 MST ------- something for 10.3. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 olh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OtherBugsDependingO| |218029 nThis| | -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 olh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chuller@novell.com ------- Comment #2 from olh@novell.com 2006-11-24 10:23 MST ------- *** Bug 223454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 felix@derklecks.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |felix@derklecks.de ------- Comment #3 from felix@derklecks.de 2007-03-01 07:02 MST ------- what it the status of this bug? I just installed 10.3-alpha1 on my MacBook. But I had to sync the partition tables with rEFIt gptsync.efi. I read somewhere about a linux commandline tool to sync the tables ... Maybe this would work. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 ------- Comment #4 from olh@novell.com 2007-03-01 07:32 MST ------- will be implemented this year. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 olh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX ------- Comment #5 from olh@novell.com 2007-05-02 13:18 MST ------- I looked at it today. The correct way is to use an EFI aware bootloader and an EFI aware operating system. Our kernels have CONFIG_EFI disabled. Too bad. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 agruen@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kkaempf@novell.com Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX | ------- Comment #6 from agruen@novell.com 2007-05-03 04:48 MST ------- Linux is well aware of the EFI partitions: all our kernels have CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y enabled. Otherwise, the kernel wouldn't be able to access those partitions, and I would surely have noticed that already ... It would be very nice if parted could preserve the backward-compatibility DOS partitions if at all possible. Failing that, we would need to recognize when the boot disk is GPT in yast, and choose a GPT aware boot loader -- but which would work well on this kind of hardware? If we don't address this problem, machines with OSX/Linux dual-boot setups will still fail in 10.3, which would be pretty bad. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 ------- Comment #7 from fehr@novell.com 2007-05-03 05:08 MST ------- This is clearly a feature request, not a bug report. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 ------- Comment #8 from olh@novell.com 2007-05-03 05:13 MST ------- zeroing the mbr smells like a bug. I talked to Alexander Graf today. He confirmed: The boot concept is still fucked up on intel systems. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 ------- Comment #9 from fehr@novell.com 2007-05-03 08:35 MST ------- According to my tests parted overwrites MBR only when you execute "parted /dev/sda mklabel gpt". When you manipulate partitions MBR is untouched. Since a parted ... mklabel is per defintion removing all partitions on a disk I do not see why changing the MBR in this case is considered as a bug. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c10 --- Comment #10 from Felix Möller <felix@derklecks.de> 2007-07-21 02:48:06 MST --- (In reply to comment #6 from Andreas Gruenbacher)
If we don't address this problem, machines with OSX/Linux dual-boot setups will still fail in 10.3, which would be pretty bad.
(In reply to comment #4 from Olaf Hering)
will be implemented this year.
Olaf is there any chance for this to be implemented in 10.3? I would happily test it. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c11 --- Comment #11 from Olaf Hering <olh@novell.com> 2007-07-23 06:35:36 MST --- there was no reaction from upstream, yet. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c12 Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Enhancement |Major --- Comment #12 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-07-31 09:43:41 MST --- well, just ran into the same thing during an update. before the update I had GPT and MBR nicely in sync during the update the MBR is zeroed and you end up with an error from the bootloader: grub: grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,2) (hd0,2) Error 22: No such partition grub> quit so this behaviour does not only fail installation, it also breaks working setups. BTW: the dual scheme with MBR and another native partitioning scheme is also used on other platforms. In this case it's MacOS and GPT, on AXP/Alpha there was the BSD-disklabel together with MBR. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c13 --- Comment #13 from Olaf Hering <olh@novell.com> 2007-07-31 10:36:16 MST --- Created an attachment (id=154541) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=154541) parted.msdos-on-gpt.patch This patch adds a new 'set X map_gpt_to_msdos Y' function. Using it will break the EFI spec (I cant verify it because the EFI spec is not free). On Apple systems with Intel hardware it is sometimes required to install EFI unaware systems, such as Windows, grub or lilo. With this change, parted will not destroy the existing primary partitions. But, parted does some checks to make sure the LBA mapping in the individual partitions match the existing gpt partitions. If they differ, the msdos entry will be removed. One issue remains: the msdos partition types. gpt types can not be mapped 1 to 1 to msdos partition types. I added a simple mapping to (hopefully) let grub recognize the partition as readable. This patch needes testing on Apple systems. I do not have any DOS compatbile hardware. Example usage: sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel gpt sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 17k 1G sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 2G 3G sudo parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 map_gpt_to_msdos 2 sudo parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 boot on sudo parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 boot off -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c14 Olaf Hering <olh@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|olh@novell.com |fehr@novell.com Status|REOPENED |NEW --- Comment #14 from Olaf Hering <olh@novell.com> 2007-07-31 10:37:12 MST --- Thomas, work with the community to get this change accepted. why was it assigned to me anyway? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c16 Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |ro@novell.com --- Comment #16 from Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> 2007-07-31 11:03:32 MST --- Olaf, the bug belongs to you since you accepted it on 2006-11-16. So far, I have no idea what you want me to do. Do you want me to include the attached patch into our parted? If yes, I cannot see what this should fix unless there are also changes to yast2-storage no one tols me so far about. Since there are no calls to parted except "parted ... print" during update I seriously doubt that parted calls by yast2-storage are responsible for Rudis broken system. Rudi pelase attch y2log files. Since I saw no fate request about this so far, I do not see that this is something for 10.3 anyway. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c17 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |gp@novell.com --- Comment #17 from Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@novell.com> 2007-07-31 11:05:11 MST --- I would expect us to have access to the EFI specification -- Gerald, do you know who could know about it? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c18 --- Comment #18 from Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> 2007-07-31 11:17:22 MST --- Had a look at the patch. It is certainly not trivial and I will not add it to parted for 10.3, since I see no reason to risk breaking parted. This problem must be handled by someone with knowledge about GPT disk label. I have not the slightest idea what the patch is about at all. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c19 Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|ro@novell.com | --- Comment #19 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-07-31 12:00:05 MST --- Created an attachment (id=154551) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=154551) yast2 logfiles tarball -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c20 --- Comment #20 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-07-31 12:03:14 MST --- for #17: using EFI would block me from using grub (unless someone teaches grub about EFI partition tables). and for all those using triple-boot systems (MacOS,WinXP,Linux) on the same box, there is no choice but using the GPT/MBR combination anyway. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c21 --- Comment #21 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-07-31 12:05:17 MST --- BTW: refit.sf.net implements the sync between GPT and MBR as well, could maybe be used as reference. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c22 --- Comment #22 from Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@novell.com> 2007-07-31 14:50:37 MST --- Ah yes, refit ... it seems to do some sort of best-effort mapping of the first few partitions; it gets the partition types badly wrong. Which partitions need to be converted all depends on what you want to do AFAICT: for booting a linux-only system with grub, all that's needed is the boot partition. For dual booting, I guess more than one partition should be translated. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c24 Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|fehr@novell.com |odabrunz@novell.com --- Comment #24 from Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> 2007-08-01 03:56:56 MST --- There seem to be two different things mix in this patch: First, there seems to be demand for a new feature, namely supporting this strange "dual GPT/MSDOS" partition table. This is clearly a feature request and needs to be done via Fate and not bugzilla. There will be no progress in implementing this feature unless it is in fate and approved. Second, something messes up Rudis system during update. During update, yast2-storage does only calls "parted .... print" which certainly does not do any harm to the content of a partition. After looking through the log I find some thing strange, there are two partitions (sda1 and sda3) with the boot flag set. So far this was not excpected by libstorage and it claims all partitions on GPT as partitions of type "EFI boot". The wrong classification of sda3 as "EFI boot" probably leads bootloader to treat sda3 as boot partition instead of sda1. I fixed libstorage now not to mis-detect any partitions on GPT with boot flag set as EFI unless they also contain a fat filesystem. Reassigned to maintainer of bootloader to check if there are any other problems with bootloader and such a strange disk setup. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c25 --- Comment #25 from Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@novell.com> 2007-08-01 04:11:45 MST --- I don't know if this is the exact issue that Rudi ran into, but if you have a system with this dual GPT/DOS partition scheme, the 10.2 installer recognizes this as a GPT disk and destroys the DOS partition table. This happens even if the existing partitions are left unchanged. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c26 --- Comment #26 from Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> 2007-08-01 04:28:52 MST --- Then we need to find out which exact call destroys the DOS partition table. yast2-storage only calls "parted ... print" and this definitely does not touch the partition table. Bootloader does such things as "/usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/sda set 3 boot on". In theory, this only sets a flag in the gpt partition by maybe this also destroys synchronizity between DOS and GPT disklabel. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c28 --- Comment #28 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-08-01 04:39:09 MST --- from #24:
The wrong classification of sda3 as "EFI boot" probably leads bootloader to >> treat sda3 as boot partition instead of sda1. I fixed libstorage now not to mis-detect any partitions on GPT with boot flag set as EFI unless they also contain a fat filesystem.
I think this is wrong. in my GPT here, partitions 1 and 3 have the bootable flag, which is fine and the main bootloader on that disk is refit. grub should be installed on the /-partition, which is sda3 (in both GPT and MBR). -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c29 --- Comment #29 from Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> 2007-08-01 04:44:58 MST --- What is wrong? The detection of /dev/sda3 as partition type "EFI boot" was certainly incorrect and is fixed now. If this is not the reason for your breakage (as I suspected) we need to find out, what was and try to avoid that. Maybe simply calling "/usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/sda set 3 boot on" would be a first step to check of this is really the problem. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c31 Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|agruen@novell.com | --- Comment #31 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-08-13 05:15:54 MST --- this is exactly the problem. why do you call parted at all to set a flag that is already set before ? (and as side effect parted nukes the MBR ...) d173:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee EFI GPT /dev/sda2 26 6335 50674086+ af Unknown /dev/sda3 * 6591 13002 51496358 83 Linux /dev/sda4 13002 13502 4016250 b W95 FAT32 d173:~ # /usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/sda set 3 boot on d173:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 14594 117220823+ ee EFI GPT -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c33 Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|fehr@novell.com |odabrunz@novell.com --- Comment #33 from Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> 2007-09-04 03:24:30 MST --- The parted call to set the boot flag is not done by the storage related code. Therefore I certainly cannot answer Rudis question. The parted call to set the boot flag is done in bootloader code and therefore the changes (regarding this call) need also to be done there: bootloader/grub/misc.ycp:382 Running command /usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/sda set 3 boot on Since this is too late for 10.3 anyway I reassign this back to Olaf. So he can come back to this until next release. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 Matej Horvath <mhorvath@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |stefan.fent@novell.com -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c35 Stefan Fent <stefan.fent@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |stefan.fent@novell.com AssignedTo|stefan.fent@novell.com |fehr@novell.com --- Comment #35 from Stefan Fent <stefan.fent@novell.com> 2007-10-24 13:26:26 MST --- This clearly is a parted bug - even if, like in this case, bootloader does not necessarily need to write anything to MBR, it may have to in other situations. reassigning -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c36 Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #36 from Thomas Fehr <fehr@novell.com> 2007-10-25 10:53:53 MST --- Please stop spreading FUD. This is certainly not a bug in parted but a feature request for parted. No one ever claimed parted being able handling such dual GPT/DOS disks, so how can being unable to handle such disks be a bug. If someone wants such a thing supported, he should use the approved way of creating a feature request for it and not abuse bugzilla by declaring feature requests as major bugs. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c37 Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ro@novell.com Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Component|Basesystem |YaST2 Product|openSUSE 10.2 |openSUSE 11.0 Resolution|INVALID | Version|Beta 2 plus |unspecified --- Comment #37 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-11-06 04:14:57 MST --- reopening for 11.0 I'll open a fate request for the parted patch, but this bug needs to be reassigned to the new maintainer of yast2-bootloader, please see comment #31: the bootloader should not blindly call parted to set flags that are already set perfectly. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c38 --- Comment #38 from Ruediger Oertel <ro@novell.com> 2007-11-06 04:30:34 MST --- (it's fate#302485, had already been there before) -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|fehr@novell.com |dfiser@novell.com Status|REOPENED |NEW -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 Martin Mrazik <mmrazik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |jsrain@novell.com -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 Hannes Reinecke <hare@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #154541|text/x-patch |text/plain mime type| | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 Hannes Reinecke <hare@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hare@novell.com AssignedTo|dmacvicar@novell.com |agraf@novell.com -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 User agraf@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c41 --- Comment #41 from Alexander Graf <agraf@novell.com> 2008-07-17 17:02:12 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=228615) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=228615) Parted patch to sync GPT->MBR All right, new approach so we need fewer changes to the rest of the toolchain but still improve the situation compared to erasing the MBR: Always sync the MBR to the first GPT partitions. This also enables us to use partitions > 2TB with BIOSes, as long as the user has /boot within the first 4 partitions and within 2TB (all of which restrictions we had before too). Could anyone try this patch please and see if it works properly on a Mac? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 User agraf@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c42 Alexander Graf <agraf@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #228615|0 |1 is obsolete| | --- Comment #42 from Alexander Graf <agraf@novell.com> 2008-07-18 01:59:45 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=228665) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=228665) Parted patch to sync GPT->MBR And here comes the new version that works just fine on my Mac. It also keeps the bootloader code now. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839 User agraf@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220839#c43 Alexander Graf <agraf@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #43 from Alexander Graf <agraf@novell.com> 2008-07-18 02:25:58 MDT --- The patch is on its way to STABLE ... Please reopen this bug if you're still having trouble booting from GPT with BIOS. -- 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.
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