[Bug 249800] Still get "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition" with valid partition layout

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Summary: Still get "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition" with valid partition layout


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249800


jgranado at redhat.com changed:

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------- Additional Comments From jgranado at redhat.com  2008-05-27 08:36 EST -------
I tried to use the files that were posted with no consistent results:

[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]# parted first512 print
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!                           
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]#
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]# fdisk first512 -l
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]#
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]# sfdisk first512 -l
Disk first512: cannot get geometry

Disk first512: 0 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
first512p1   *      0+      6       7-     56196   de  Dell Utility
first512p2          7   60799   60793  488319772+   7  HPFS/NTFS
first512p3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
first512p4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]#
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]# parted first2048 print
Error: Unable to open /home/joel/Misc/first2048 - unrecognised disk label.
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]#
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]# fdisk first2048 -l

Disk first2048: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbd996bef

Disk first2048 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]#
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]# sfdisk first2048 -l
Disk first2048: cannot get geometry

Disk first2048: 0 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
 first2048: unrecognized partition table type
No partitions found
[root at dhcp-lab-115 Misc]# 

Additionally I took 512 bytes from the (id=212981) file and compared it to the
(id=212971) file, surprisingly they were different.  what command did you use to
generate these files?  did you use dd?

I'm going to try to modify parted so it can show me what its seeing (have some
debugging code),  If that does not work, I have already arranged for the lab
manager to tell me when new dell machines arrive so I can test on the "virging"
disks.  It would really help if you can specify the dell machine.

thx

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