Bug 50584
| Summary: | /dev/sdb1 identified incorrectly | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski> | ||||
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-04-23 20:05:40 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Gene Czarcinski
2001-08-01 13:01:02 UTC
I have no problem continuing on to the next screen without a label defined for an NTFS partition. As to the partition misdetect, was there ever an NTFS partition starting at this location on the disk? I have check into this and /dev/sdb1 is a FAT16 partition with a single file on it (the Win2k paging file). As far as I can tell, NTFS was never on that disk. Could you run `parted /dev/sdb` and see if it also shows the partition as ntfs? I ran parted against both sda and sdb (they each have a FAT16 partition as the first partition. Doing check 1 on sda did some work but displayed nothing. Doing check 2 on sdb said it did not support ntfs. Whatever signature it (and anaconda) look for is present. OK, I reinstalled Roswell into a test partition (/dev/sdb3) to check everything again and discovered some small amount of additional information: 1. Again /dev/sdb1 was identified as ntfs. The fact that this was identified ntfs is not important to me but it may contribute to the other part of the problem. 2. /dev/sda1 was identified as DOS -- really it is win2k installed on a FAT16 partition. sdb1 had not label. If I remove the label for sda1 (delete "DOS") then then "next" button gets greyed out. If I have a label on with sda1 or sdb1, then I can proceed. On other systems with winnt or win2k installed on hda1 or sda1 but no sdb1 issue, I can delete the label for "DOS" and proceed fine. It is only this one system with the strange partition that causes a problem. If parted says it's ntfs, anaconda will since anaconda is just using parted's python module. I've fixed the having multiple blank labels not allowing you to go forward in CVS. Matt -- any ideas on the ntfs misdetect? could you dd if=/dev/hda2 of=fshead bs=1024k count=1 and attach it, please? (I'm moving this bug to parted, since this would be a parted bug. Shame on you for reporting two bugs in one bugzilla....) The bugs seemed to be one bug initially. I haven't a clue as to the ntfs misdetect but will try to get the "dd" tomorrow. I assume you want the information from the partition identified as ntfs: /dev/sdb1. The only ide device on the system is the cdrom drive. The /dev/sda2 partition is swap ... did you want that?? Created attachment 26793 [details]
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=fshead bs=1024 count=1
sdb1 (a vfat formatted disk) is still recognized as NTFS. This still happens with RC1 although leaving the system "name" blank does not create a badgrub.conf and this can be ignored. Unless you RedHat want to pursue this, I suggest it should be closed. It clearly has the NTFS magic at the top of this filesystem. does this still happen with latest parted? Arrgh. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to that system. If you cannot get the info elsewhere, I can try and create the problem but this will not be easy or guarenteed to reproduce the problem. I'll mark this as closed since we do not have a way to reproduce this exact situation. If it continues to be a problem please reopen this report. |