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

[Sven Luther]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:31:17AM -0400, David Cantrell wrote:
> 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 

I am unable to build the 1.8 svn version, due to some autoconf/automake
issues.

> introduced a lot of fixes for Mac disklabels in what will be the 1.8.0 
> release:
> 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted

Well, the problem seems to be linked in the d-i environment, since in the
installed system things work just fine. I am really baffled by this, first
time i see it, but it may be due to some devfs compatibility things that are
done maybe ? Not sure though, the partition table is recognized as a mac one.

Friendly,

Sven Luther