From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@evision.ag>
Subject: Re: [bug, 2.5.29, IDE] partition table corruption?
Date: 01 Aug 2002 16:12:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028214726.14865.57.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208011541590.19906-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 14:45, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> if i do it then the partition table gets corrupted and the system does not
> boot - it stops at 'LI'. (iirc meaning that the second-stage loader does
> not load?) Using a recovery CD fixes the problem, so it's only the
> partition info that got trashed, not the filesystem.
>
> i use IDE disks.
>
> this makes development under 2.5.29 quite inconvenient - i have to boot
> back into another kernel whenever loading a new kernel.
Does telling lilo to use "linear" mode help ? Some of the geometry stuff
in 2.5 seems a bit broken.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-01 13:45 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-01 13:48 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-01 15:02 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 15:12 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-08-06 22:27 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-07 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-07 17:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-07 18:43 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-08 7:46 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 9:08 Adam J. Richter
2002-08-08 9:24 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-08 9:34 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 10:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-08 11:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-08 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 11:22 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 13:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 12:18 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 18:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-09 0:11 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-09 6:27 ` Marcin Dalecki
[not found] ` <3D523B25.5 <20020808181100Z315277-685+26763@vger.kernel.org>
2002-08-09 6:25 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 12:29 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-08 18:22 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-08 22:36 ` John Coffman
2002-08-09 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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