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@fractal13 Nice to see you around! Hope things are going well for you.

Thanks for the hint on the downloads page. Depending on the tools you use to download you get a different filename. Just click the download link in Firefox and you end up with a file called fogproject-1.5.7.tar.gz. Use wget and you have 1.5.7.tar.gz…

@fractal13 said in Single disk (resizeable) 1 partition restore:

each image overwrote the MBR, GPT partition types, and partition UUIDs.

Even if you set it to one single partition in the image settings before deploy? Shouldn’t do so I suppose.

@fractal13 Hey, long time no hear, hope all is well.

Wondering if you (being the original writer and all) wouldn’t mind reviewing my latest procsfdisk.awk script? Had a few issues in 1.3.x days that kind of required a rewrite of it all, which went fairly well. Last night (early this morning) I hope to have solved the mystery of extended partitions though I’m sure it’s not perfect. I can’t see the “flow” nicely. So a good review could be very very useful. (Others are welcome to it as well.)

This has been added to inits and scripts.

Had to modify the saveGRUB a little bit if the disk returns with 0, it can’t create the mbr because the count get’s offset by one sector. count can’t equal -1 or 0. At least in the case of 0 it generates a d1.mbr file, but there’s no data inside of it.

Thanks Tom. I appreciate your persistence in getting this integrated. It’ll save a lot of hassles for first time dual-boot users.

PS. Coming soon: patch to make capture of GRUB2 work in more cases.

[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 40923, member: 28116”]I can confirm fractal13’s findings and I am pretty sure it’s still an issue in current SVN (r2908).

Our setup is kind of similar having Windows 7 AND logical partions.

sda1: primary NTFS Windows 7 (100 MB boot partition)
sda2: primary NTFS Windows 7 (C: partition)
sda3: extended partition
sda5: logical NTFS (D: data)
sda6: logical NTFS (E: ubuntu in an image file using WUBI)

Kind of a weird partition layout I know but it’s what we got right now… As we use WUBI we don’t have GRUB installed right on disk! So I don’t need to worry about that and therefore choose OSID 5 (we run Linux yes but from FOG’s point of view it looks like Windows only).

I fixed the problem for us with this very simple change in fog.upload:
[CODE]— src/buildroot/package/fog/scripts/bin/fog.upload (Revision 2908)
+++ src/buildroot/package/fog/scripts/bin/fog.upload (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
fi
elif [ “$imgType” == “mps” ]; then
hasgpt=hasGPT $hd;

if [ "$hasgpt" == "0" -a "$osid" == "50" ]; then if [ "$hasgpt" == "0" ]; then have_extended_partition=`sfdisk -l $hd 2>/dev/null | egrep "^${hd}.* (Extended|W95 Ext'd \(LBA\))$" | wc -l`; else have_extended_partition="0";

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Although I have to admit that I CANNOT test if this is working for everyone else (other Windows or Mac OS X) I wonder why extended/logical partitions should only work with Linux (OSID 50)??

Would be great if others could test this “fix” and provide information if this works in their environment.

Thank you![/quote]

Thanks for reporting.

Your patch has been added and hopefully will work for yours and others items.