[ale] Superblock recovery - Revisited

[Michael B. Trausch]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> 
> What I thought was odd was the "Start / End" on /dev/sda2.  It looks
> like it starts after it ends.  Is this something to do with the
> partitioning scheme or something with fdisk (used fdisk on Knoppix
> 3.6)?
> 
> QTParted shows /dev/sda1 to be "unknown" type.  How is fdisk
> recognizing it as FAT32 (which is correct) if QTParted doesn't
> understand how to read the partition (which was originally made with
> QTParted)?
> 
> Any of this look odd to anyone else?
> 

Certainly does.  I've only seen something like that happen once, and it
wound up having something to do with the movement of the drive from one
system to another that had different settings on how to read the
geography of the drive.

Are you absolutely certain that the kernel is getting the correct
geography, and in the right format (CHS, LBA, something else)?

	- Mike

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