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

[Jean Tourrilhes]

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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