Re: [BUG 2.6.7] : Partition table display bogus...
From: Jean Tourrilhes
Date: Wed Jun 23 2004 - 18:23:09 EST
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:56:40AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:05:57PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
>
> > Playing with 2.6.7 on my laptop. I realised Lilo did not work
> > anymore. Look further, and the partition table was all screwed up.
>
> Not so pessimistic.
Sorry, I should have said "the partition table display".
> Old situation:
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
> New situation:
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
>
> Nothing wrong with that partition table.
Yep.
> Maybe you get unhappy because of the fdisk output, but that only
> shows that you have an old fdisk. Also there nothing wrong.
Ok.
> Ah - so the only wrong thing must be the fact that lilo stopped working.
> I suppose things will improve if you give it the "linear" (or "lba32") flag.
None of these helped. I guess I should update LILO as
well. I'll try to do that.
> What changed is that the kernel no longer attempts at guessing a geometry.
> If such guessing is required, user space must do so itself.
>
> Andries
Thanks very much for the quick answer, very helpful !
Jean
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