Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751798Ab1COJGa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:06:30 -0400 Received: from mx4.orcon.net.nz ([219.88.242.54]:48387 "EHLO mx4.orcon.net.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750829Ab1COJG2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:06:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4D7F2C11.907@orcon.net.nz> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:06:25 +1300 From: Michael Cree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110307 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, warns@pre-sense.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Alpha no longer recognises certain partition tables (v2.6.38) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Check: by mx4.orcon.net.nz on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:06:27 +1300 X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Tue Mar 15 22:06:27 2011 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.5503 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 591 Lines: 17 v2.6.38 boot reports it can't recognise the partition table on the system disk on my Alpha and panics when it can't find the root device. It worked at v2.6.38-rc7. While I haven't done a bisect to fully verify I nevertheless suggest the following patch as the likely cause: 1eafbfe Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsing Cheers Michael. -- 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/