Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262322AbUFWXVJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:21:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262213AbUFWXVI (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:21:08 -0400 Received: from palrel11.hp.com ([156.153.255.246]:55436 "EHLO palrel11.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262328AbUFWXUl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:20:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:20:39 -0700 To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Linux kernel mailing list , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.7] : Partition table display bogus... Message-ID: <20040623232039.GA27989@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <20040623220557.GA26199@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20040623225640.GE3072@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040623225640.GE3072@pclin040.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1367 Lines: 43 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/