GNU bug report logs - #57802
MBR problem

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Thomas <thomas.dejean <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Thomas <thomas.dejean <at> gmail.com>
To: 57802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57802: MBR problem
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:31:41 +0200

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Hello,

I discovered that Gparted writes to the MBR (0 to 446 sectors) when it is
empty.

Yesterday i used a live cd of ubuntu to delete a partition of my disk with
Gparted. And my pc didn't boot after that.

My os is a Fedora server installed in UEFI. Note that Grub is not installed
in the MBR or in the partition. I don't know how but it boots fine like
that.


So i had to delete the code Gparted writed in the MBR (0 to 446 sectors) to
boot again ("sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1").

I think Gparted should not touch the MBR (0 to 446 sectors) when it is not
ask by the user.


Thanks

Thomas

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