Bug 847013 - os-prober: ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
Summary: os-prober: ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 847017
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: os-prober
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Hedayat Vatankhah
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-09 13:05 UTC by John Ellson
Modified: 2012-08-09 17:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-09 17:56:30 UTC
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Description John Ellson 2012-08-09 13:05:53 UTC
Description of problem:
os-prober doesn't like WD 2TB USB3 external drives. grub2-mkconfig reports errors because of os-prober errors.

This problem was previously reported in BZ743136 - but hasn't been fixed.

BZ#838305 reports that a new version of os-prober is available, but this hasn't reached f17 or rawhide yet.

I also noted the lack of man pages.  That also has been previously reported in BZ#826054


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
os-prober-1.53-3.fc17.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. os-prober
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Actual results:
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
/dev/mapper/vg_otherone-lv_root:Fedora release 16 (Verne):Fedora:linux


Expected results:
no errors

Additional info:

Comment 1 Hedayat Vatankhah 2012-08-09 17:56:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 847017 ***


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