Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:07:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:07:05 -0400 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:7394 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:06:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:07:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Viro To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.11 loses sda9 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I recompiled (I used the same .10 conf) and rebooted, but my reboot halted >because /dev/sda9 didnt exist. I checked this in fdisk, and it didnt see it. > I rebooted to the 2.4.10 kernel, and sda9 was there. What happened? Information from fdisk would help - from both versions (with 2.4.11 you'll need to boot with init=/bin/sh, obviously). It may be a bug in partition code, it may be something fishy with guessing geometry (SCSI uses bread() for that) and it may be something fishy in block devices in pagecache stuff. If you have sfdisk, sfdisk /dev/sda -O /tmp/foo + mailing the result would make debugging the thing much simpler (that one - from the 2.4.10). - 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/