Re: [patch] Re: 2.2.0-pre2 fat_read_super: Bad fsinfo_offset

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:11:22 +0000 (GMT)

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> >
> > Patch to revert remove the code from 2.2.0pre3 is attached.
>
> Unfortunately if you revert this patch I can't even mount my HFS partitioned
> disks under 2.2pre. People will have similar problems with unformatted disks,
> with Linux crashing on boot every boot with some corrupt partition tables.
>
> So a 'correct' fix badly needs finding. But yes the current fix isnt

Duuh, actually its not as bad as I thought. Having fixed my scripts to specify
the disk type my machine doesnt oops. But missing the type out is fatal on
the Macintosh disk. Not quite sure why, but its blowing up in the msdos code

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