Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:47:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> How about the old fallback?
> 
> So add a new boot option `msdos_skip_null_part' to enable this workaround.

Oh, horrors! Andrew, you do not want this.
This is much worse than leaving that patch or removing it.

Options are evil.
In this particular case options are terrible.

Andries
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