From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263465AbTDSVCD (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:02:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263468AbTDSVCD (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:02:03 -0400 Received: from web41804.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.138]:35494 "HELO web41804.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263465AbTDSVCC (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:02:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20030419211356.25316.qmail@web41804.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:13:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Staudenmayer Subject: Re: 2.5.67-ac2 and lilo To: Andries Brouwer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030419205152.GA19800@win.tue.nl> 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 Hey Andries, before taking your message into account, i think you misunderstood my question: > Hmm. You did not forget to rerun LILO or so? the error occurs when _running_ lilo, i.e. after typing "lilo" at the prompt. greetings, chris --- Andries Brouwer wrote: > > but now, when running lilo, i get the following message: > > > > Fatal: First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature > > Hmm. You did not forget to rerun LILO or so? > If ide_xlate_1024 does nothing but "return 0" then > handle_ide_mess() does nothing. > > What other differences does -ac2 have? > It reintroduces a bug in the partition reading code - the fragment > > @@ -456,7 +556,7 @@ > if (!subtypes[n].parse) > continue; > subtypes[n].parse(state, bdev, START_SECT(p)*sector_size, > - NR_SECTS(p)*sector_size, slot); > + NR_SECTS(p)*sector_size, n); > } > put_dev_sector(sect); > > of the -ac2 patch is bad. > In order to judge whether it is this or something else I would have > to know much more about your system. What are the kernel boot messages > for this disk under 2.5.67-bk9 that works and 2.5.67-ac2 that fails? > What is the partition table? No disk managers in sight? Does LILO > have lba32 or linear options? > Does 2.5.67-ac2 work if you replace its fs/partitions/msdos.c by > the vanilla one? > > Andries > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com