Re: 2.3.28 bugs and things to do.
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:29:07 +1100
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 01:20:48 +0100,
Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 09:45:44PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>> >On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:03:19AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>> >> 3. Running lilo on some (large) disks results in
>> >> ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096)
>> I have been getting "ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 1024-char blocks
>> implemented (512)" running lilo version 20 since at least 2.3.19.
>
>Hmm. Now as far as I can see there is nothing special with lilo,
>it is just another program. Perhaps the only unusual part about it
>is that it reads and writes the entire disk, rather than a partition.
>
>Do you also get such errors using dd on the disk?
>(It doesnt matter whether you read or write, so probably
>reading is better.)
dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 of=/var/tmp/bootstrap
Double check that backups are valid, including the partition tables
dd if=/var/tmp/bootstrap bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/sda
No ll_rw_block messages, no messages at all, system still running.
>You confirmed: no loop involved.
>No raid involved either?
<Blake 7 mode>
Confirm.
</Blake 7 mode>
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