Re: GPT missing after controller swap (wd to ld)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 10,  6:52pm, louis%zabrico.com@localhost (Louis Guillaume) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: GPT missing after controller swap (wd to ld)

| On 10/10/16 5:37 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > On Oct 10,  2:09pm, jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: GPT missing after controller swap (wd to ld)
| >
| > | } Yup, great! You did this perfectly :-) You can try this patch to
| > | } see if you can read the GPT table:
| > |
| > |      The elided patch is going to do absolutely nothing for his
| > | problem as it isn't remotely related.
| >
| > I would not be so sure. In fact I am still not.
| >
| > christos
| >
| 
| 
| John appears to be correct here. The patch had no effect. It seems the 
| code that generates this error is in map.c in the "map_add" function. 
| But I haven't gone looking for the actual invocation...
| 
| Thank you all for looking. I will probably continue with my 
| rebuilding/copying at this point, as I need this machine to be up and 
| running "yesterday".

Yes, it probably bails scanning partitions in the primary pass. Still
it would be interesting to make resizedisk work, or to have gpt able
to edit such a partition table...

christos