Package: mtools
Version: 4.0.12-1
Severity: normal
I do:
dd if=/dev/zero of=diskimage count=`expr 255*63*1000` bs=512
echo 'drive c file=diskimage partition=1 blocksize=512 cylinders=1000
heads=63 sectors=255' > mtoolsrc
export MTOOLSRC=`pwd`/mtoolsrc
mpartition -I -B /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin c:
and get:
read MBR: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Looking at the source, this comes from line 532 of mpartition.c
which says:
if(read(fd, (char *) buf, 512) < 512) {
perror("read MBR");
exit(1);
}
fd here points at /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin which is 440 bytes long.
I suspect that the inequality should be <0 not <512.
Changing it that way makes mpartition work.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc2-00098-gd1b113b (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mtools depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.8.4 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
mtools recommends no packages.
Versions of packages mtools suggests:
pn floppyd <none> (no description available)
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