[parted-devel] [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

[David Cantrell]

Sven Luther wrote:
> Package: parted
> Version: 1.7.1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> When creating a mac partition table (on a 64bit powerpc XServe G5 machine),
> with todays d-i daily build, parted 1.7.1 is not able to show the resulting
> partition table. It recognizes the partition table as a mac partition table,
> but shows no partitions.
> 
> The partitions show up just right inside partman though, which uses libparted.

Can you try with parted-1.8.0rc2 and see if the problem persists?  We've 
introduced a lot of fixes for Mac disklabels in what will be the 1.8.0 
release:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted

Thanks,

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA