Re: fdisk issue

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had experienced that my laptop's BIOS hangs up when I don't specify
> fdisk's -C option! The source code in question in fdisk.c follows:

I checked the archives because I remembered that somebody had reported that before.  Turns out it was you in February.

Okay, first off, the BIOS doesn't have any business looking at the slice table.  However, it obviously does (and fdisk(8) indicates that other BIOSes do that as well).

This means we can't do this by default.  I'd like to find the bug reports which provoked this change in the first place, anybody have some pointers?

To conclude, I am very sorry that you had to screw open your laptop several times to make it work again.  I'll commit a fix ASAP.

cheers
 simon

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