From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IurRg-0003TX-VH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:24:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lALFMw4u004390; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:58 GMT Received: from s200aog16.obsmtp.com (s200aog16.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.130]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lALFMvDa004384 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:57 GMT Received: from source ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob016.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:56 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (ns2.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id BC058DB3D for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.agr.st.com (mail1.agr.st.com [164.130.4.71]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 75E8E4C126 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [164.130.17.81] (ws2912.agr.st.com [164.130.17.81]) by mail1.agr.st.com (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id COM04550 (AUTH "raffaele belardi"); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:22:53 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47444DBE.4080107@st.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:24:46 +0100 From: Raffaele BELARDI User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071113 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: not amd64 specific - disk failure References: <47415FCD.300@st.com> <47418F30.6050607@st.com> <47429114.5030102@st.com> <4743F952.5000303@st.com> <20071121094530.e6qb18hwlcwcg0kg@box251.bluehost.com> In-Reply-To: <20071121094530.e6qb18hwlcwcg0kg@box251.bluehost.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a43e8c7a-4b75-4c7d-b45c-b5e76bb1c028 X-Archives-Hash: b880c862640e8d3b4ff039d2b2d7c3ae Billy Holmes wrote: > Quoting Raffaele BELARDI : > >> Raffaele Belardi wrote: >> the sdb.img as a disk image, so mount it as a disk (not as a partition) >> so maybe it automatically skips the first 0x7e00 bytes and gives me an >> aligned first partition? > > have you tried playing with losetup ? > > this link might help > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2004-December/012627.html > Thanks, I had never heard of this command till this morning, there's always something to learn. I'll give it a try tonight. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list