Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262334AbVDXPHv (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:07:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262335AbVDXPHv (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:07:51 -0400 Received: from eurogra4543-2.clients.easynet.fr ([212.180.52.86]:4280 "HELO server5.heliogroup.fr") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262334AbVDXPHk (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:07:40 -0400 From: Hubert Tonneau To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:37:54 GMT Message-ID: <055UDZ711@server5.heliogroup.fr> X-Mailer: Pliant 93 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------GV0HBJ81UEEPQ1GVX5QMRUXT" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2267 Lines: 50 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------GV0HBJ81UEEPQ1GVX5QMRUXT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 2.6.11 and 2.6.11.7 work fine. 2.6.12-rc1 2.6.12-rc2 and 2.6.12-rc3 fail to read partiton table on my laptop, also 2.6.12-rc3 works fine on another box also running FullPliant. The meaningfull part of the boot sequence log is: With 2.6.11.x: hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 With 2.6.12-rcx: hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: so with 2.6.12-rcx, the boot process ends with an unpleasant: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-bloc(3,1) The partition table has been created by Pliant partition tool: http://fullpliant.org/pliant/linux/storage/partition.pli function 'partition_create' at line 52. Since most of you are probably not awared of Pliant programming language, neither FullPliant operating system, I've attached 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/partition.bin bs=512 count=1' --------GV0HBJ81UEEPQ1GVX5QMRUXT Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="partition.bin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="partition.bin" +ushAbUBTElMTxYGEK9rQgAAAAAAAAAAsxKwPQAAgEAnw44AuMAHjtC8AAj7UlMGVvyO2DHt YLgAErM2zRBhsA3oZwGwCuhiAbBM6F0BYB4HgPr+dQKI8rsAAop2HonQgOSAMOB4CjwQcwb2 RhxAdS6I8maLdhhmCfZ0I1K0CLKAU80TW3JVD7bKun8AQmYxwEDocABmO7e4AXQD4u9aU4p2 H74gAOhKALSZZoF//ExJTE91J15ogAgHMdvoNAB1+74GAIn3uQoA86Z1DbACrnUIBlWwSejS AMu0mrAg6MoA6LcA/k4AdAe86Adh6V7/9Ov9Zq1mCcB0CmYDRhDoBACAxwLDYFVVZlAGU2oB ahCJ5lP2xmB0WPbGIHQUu6pVtEHNE3ILgftVqnUF9sEBdUpSBrQIzRMHcllRwOkGhumJz1nB 6giSQIPhP/fhk4tECItUCjnaczn38zn4dzPA5AaG4JL28QjiidFBWojG6wZmUFlYiOa4AQLr ArRCW70FAGDNE3MQTXQKMcDNE2FN6/C0QOlG/41kEGHDwcAE6AMAwcAEJA8nBPAUQGC7BwC0 Ds0QYcMAAACzErA9z8mAAAAAAAAAAEAAAABAfPwGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVao= --------GV0HBJ81UEEPQ1GVX5QMRUXT-- - 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/