Re: [BUG 2.6.7] : Partition table display bogus...

[Andries Brouwer]

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.

Old situation:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
New situation:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >

Nothing wrong with that partition table.

Maybe you get unhappy because of the fdisk output, but that only
shows that you have an old fdisk. Also there nothing wrong.

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.

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
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