* Peter p.vittali@tonhof.ch [20080130 23:08]:

I was just trying to install the new 1.1 release grml 1.1 rc iso inside VMware workstation 6. I have already done this successfully with grml 1.0.

However, when I do :

# fisk /dev/sda

I get :

Error: Unable to open /dev/sda : Unrecognized disk label

This did not happen in grml 1.0 where I was able to create a partition with fdisk on /dev/sda

That's a sad issue, yes. :( See also #445304 [1]

This problem is due to fdisk of util-linux vs. gnu-fdisk. See my bugreport #461888 [2] to see what I'd like to get for the future.

Currently we've the problem that we want to ship gnu-fdisk even though it causes headaches sometimes because it is based on libparted which supports some features, that util-linux does not support (GPT for example) but are important for several users.

But there's a known workaround anyway:

Try fdisk.distrib or cfdisk/cfdisk.distrib instead.

It's also documented in grml's FAQ: http://grml.org/faq/#fdisk Though I'm thinking about a way to make it even more visible to our users.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445304 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461888

regards, -mika-