Re: PROBLEM: MO mounting not working w/ 2.2.3+

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:13:33 +0100 (BST)

> containing random garbage. It happens (with 4.6% probability)
> that the kernel at boot time interprets the garbage as a
> partition table with an extended partition somewhere, next
> tries to read the first sector of that extended partition,
> which almost surely is past the end of the disk, gets a read
> error and dies (it is long ago, I forgot the details of the
> death, probably an infinite `resetting SCSI bus').

You mean a driver bug. If the driver is ok it works

> These days we are getting more and more cruft in genhd.c
> to read all kind of partition schemes. Such schemes should
> be handled like filesystems are in VFS: invoked, perhaps
> from a module, when we mention their name, not autodetected.

The m68k/arm people already have all this much cleaned up
fs/partition.

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