Re: [bug, 2.5.29, IDE] partition table corruption?

From: Marcin Dalecki (dalecki@evision.ag)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 04:34:29 EST


Uz.ytkownik Ingo Molnar napisa?:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
>
>>>| the boot loader (read.S). Currently, the kernel value is given precedence;
>>>| I am seriously reviewing this issue.
>>>
>>> I just wonder if this is the problem that you are experiencing
>>>rather than anything that was new in 2.5.29.
>>
>>Yes.
>
>
> folks, please keep in mind that this is a system that i just dont
> reconfigure at whim. It's a proven, known system i use for testing and
> nothing else. Suddenly it stopped working somewhere between 2.5.20 and
> 2.5.30. No lilo upgrade, no nothing, 2 years old binaries:
>
> [mingo@a mingo]$ ls -l /sbin/lilo
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59324 Aug 23 2000 /sbin/lilo

Yes sure. It is simply a very old bug in lilo, which the kernel worked
around and did fight against in a diallectic way.

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