Index: palo/error.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/palo/palo/error.c,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -p -r1.7 error.c
--- palo/error.c	30 Dec 2003 17:45:02 -0000	1.7
+++ palo/error.c	28 Jan 2005 19:03:10 -0000
@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@ static char *errormessages[] = {
 	"or a ramdisk.\n",
 
 	/* 19 */
-	"mke2fs failed, exit code %d."
+	"mke2fs failed, exit code %d.",
+
+	/* 20 */
+	"Cannot update an uninitialized ext2/3 formatted partition.\n"
+
 };
 
 #define NMESSAGES (sizeof errormessages / sizeof errormessages[0])
Index: palo/palo.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/palo/palo/palo.c,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 palo.c
--- palo/palo.c	4 May 2004 21:41:06 -0000	1.18
+++ palo/palo.c	28 Jan 2005 19:03:10 -0000
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ do_cdrom(int media, int kernel32, int ke
  * to cover the first four blocks of the filesystem */
 #define EXT2_OFFSET	(4*EXT2_BLOCKSIZE)
 
-void
+int
 do_formatted(int init, int media, const char *medianame, int partition,
 	     int f0start, int f0length, int bootloaderfd, int do_format,
 	     const char *commandline)
@@ -468,6 +468,8 @@ do_formatted(int init, int media, const 
 	int fd, i;
 	char cmd[512];
 
+	printf("Initializing %s as ext%d\n", partitionname, do_format);
+
 	if (verbose)
 	    printf("f0 partition starts %d, hole %d-%d, end %d\n",
 		   f0start, holestart, holestart + EXT2_HOLE*EXT2_BLOCKSIZE,
@@ -524,6 +526,12 @@ do_formatted(int init, int media, const 
 	    printf("Updating formatted ver=%d, start=%d\n",
 		   f.version, f.ipl_addr);
 
+	if ((f.version < 4) || (!f.flags & PFLAG_EXT2)) {
+		printf("Can not update %s. Please initialize first.\n",
+				partitionname);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	if(commandline)
 	    strncpy(f.cmdline, commandline, sizeof(f.cmdline));
 
@@ -532,6 +540,7 @@ do_formatted(int init, int media, const 
 
 	STRUCTWRITE(media, f, 0);
     }
+    return 0;
 }
 
 void
@@ -916,24 +925,18 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		printf("F0 partition start sector %d length %d\n",
 		    ptab[f0].start, ptab[f0].length);
 	    }
-	    if (!init) {
-		    STRUCTREAD(media, f, 0);
-		    if (f.version >= 4 && (f.flags & PFLAG_EXT2))
-			/* need to update formatted partition */
-			format_as = 1;
-	    }
 
 	    if (format_as) {
 		/* if we're going to be a formatted partition, we can't
 		 * load anything into it, so check we haven't been asked
 		 * to */
-		if(kernel32 != -1 || kernel64 != -1
-		   || ramdisk != -1)
-		    error(18);
-		printf("OK we're doing a format as ext%d\n", format_as);
-		do_formatted(init, media, medianame, f0 + 1,
+		if(kernel32 != -1 || kernel64 != -1 || ramdisk != -1)
+			error(18);
+
+		if (do_formatted(init, media, medianame, f0 + 1,
 			     ptab[f0].start * 512, ptab[f0].length * 512,
-			     bootloader, format_as, commandline);
+			     bootloader, format_as, commandline))
+			error(20);
 	    } else
 		do_randomaccess(init, media, kernel32, kernel64, commandline,
 				bootloader, ramdisk, ptab[f0].start * 512,