Eric Buddington writes:
> ... I tried getting rid of the advanced partition types options,
> which eliminated the MS-DOS partition table message, but did not
> otherwise change things.
> hda: host protected area => 1
> hda: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4982/255/63
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<7>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Found an MS-DOS partition table, not a dynamic disk.
> p1 p4
Yes, that annoying ldm message is just debugging output
somebody forgot to remove.
Andries
--- /linux/2.5/linux-2.5.49/linux/fs/partitions/ldm.c Fri Nov 22 22:40:30 2002
+++ ./ldm.c Tue Nov 26 22:22:28 2002
@@ -560,10 +560,8 @@
return FALSE;
}
- if (*(u16*) (data + 0x01FE) != cpu_to_le16 (MSDOS_LABEL_MAGIC)) {
- ldm_debug ("No MS-DOS partition table found.");
+ if (*(u16*) (data + 0x01FE) != cpu_to_le16 (MSDOS_LABEL_MAGIC))
goto out;
- }
p = (struct partition*)(data + 0x01BE);
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++, p++)
@@ -573,9 +571,8 @@
}
if (result)
- ldm_debug ("Parsed partition table successfully.");
- else
- ldm_debug ("Found an MS-DOS partition table, not a dynamic disk.");
+ ldm_debug ("Found W2K dynamic disk partition type.");
+
out:
put_dev_sector (sect);
return result;
@@ -585,9 +582,10 @@
* ldm_get_disk_objid - Search a linked list of vblk's for a given Disk Id
* @ldb: Cache of the database structures
*
- * The LDM Database contains a list of all partitions on all dynamic disks. The
- * primary PRIVHEAD, at the beginning of the physical disk, tells us the GUID of
- * this disk. This function searches for the GUID in a linked list of vblk's.
+ * The LDM Database contains a list of all partitions on all dynamic disks.
+ * The primary PRIVHEAD, at the beginning of the physical disk, tells us
+ * the GUID of this disk. This function searches for the GUID in a linked
+ * list of vblk's.
*
* Return: Pointer, A matching vblk was found
* NULL, No match, or an error