Enumerating partitions, then "Error: Aborting: no partition table found."

[dogma at disroot.org]

March 7, 2023 at 7:40 AM, "Josef Söntgen" <josef.soentgen at genode-labs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > Anyway, the hard drive. It's an actual, old-fashioned hard drive, and
> >  I've accumulated 21 partitions on it.
> > 
> 
> As a heads-up: for the moment we only make the first 9 partitions available.
> If you need to access a partition beyond that you need to apply something
> like [1] and rebuild Sculpt.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/cnuke/genode/commit/08d34a4c9b32d116631b

Oh. It’s good to know that.

> > 
> > […]
> >  [core] [init -> runtime -> ahci-0.part_block] Partition 1: LBA 40 (119537688 blocks) type: [...]
> >  
> >  Then, immediately after it's listed them all, giving values that look correct...
> >  
> >  [core] [init -> runtime -> ahci-0.part_block] Error: Aborting: no partition table found.
> >  [core] [init -> runtime -> ahci-0.part_block] Error: Uncaught exception of type 'Block::Main::No_partition_table'
> >  [core] [init -> runtime -> ahci-0.part_block] Warning: abort called - thread: ep
> >  [core] [init -> log] Error: corrupted string
> >  [core] [init -> leitzentrale -> manager] Error: ahci-0.part_block got stuck
> >  […]
> > 
> 
> You will get this error if 'part_block' could not make use of either the
> MBR or GPT. It parse the table and makes note of each valid partition it
> encounters [2], [3]. For whatever reasons none of them appears to be valid.
> 
> [2] repos/os/src/server/part_block/mbr.h:273
> [3] repos/os/src/server/part_block/gpt.h:431
> 
> - What kind of partition table type do you use?
> - In case of MBR do you only use extended partitions?

It’s GPT.
 
> If you like contact my off-list and provide the complete table (LBA,
> size and type is sufficient).

Thank you. I’ll do that.

> Regards
> Josef
> 
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> Josef Söntgen
> Genode Labs
> 
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