Hi folks, one more addition: Below is an example of reproducing this problem on an Ubuntu Disco system running parted 3.2-25. I haven't tried git master, but looking at the code, I'm pretty sure the problem stil exists there.
Gr. Matthijs # Use fdisk to create an empty partition table without any boot code matthijs@grubby:~$ truncate -s 8M tmp.img matthijs@grubby:~$ echo -e 'o\nw' | fdisk tmp.img Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.33.1). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Device does not contain a recognized partition table. Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x0298967f. Command (m for help): Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x94bfb6ca. Command (m for help): The partition table has been altered. Syncing disks. matthijs@grubby:~$ fdisk -l tmp.img | grep identifier Disk identifier: 0x94bfb6ca matthijs@grubby:~$ head -c 512 tmp.img | hd 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ca b6 bf 94 00 00 00 00 |................| 000001c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200 # Then use parted to add a partition matthijs@grubby:~$ parted tmp.img mkpart p fat32 4096s 8191s /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/smbios_entry_point: Permission denied /dev/mem: Permission denied WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. # This has changed the disk identifier (and added bootcode) matthijs@grubby:~$ fdisk -l tmp.img | grep identifier Disk identifier: 0x5d7de418 matthijs@grubby:~$ head -c 512 tmp.img | hd 00000000 fa b8 00 10 8e d0 bc 00 b0 b8 00 00 8e d8 8e c0 |................| 00000010 fb be 00 7c bf 00 06 b9 00 02 f3 a4 ea 21 06 00 |...|.........!..| 00000020 00 be be 07 38 04 75 0b 83 c6 10 81 fe fe 07 75 |....8.u........u| 00000030 f3 eb 16 b4 02 b0 01 bb 00 7c b2 80 8a 74 01 8b |.........|...t..| 00000040 4c 02 cd 13 ea 00 7c 00 00 eb fe 00 00 00 00 00 |L.....|.........| 00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 e4 7d 5d 00 00 00 00 |..........}]....| 000001c0 01 20 0c 03 20 3f 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 |. .. ?..........| 000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200
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