Re: Weird partititon recocnising problem in 2.6.0-testX

[Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:49:40AM +0100, Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
> * Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> [Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:36:25AM +0100]:
> 
> > > hda: hda hda2
> > 
> > I suppose that second hda is a typo for hda1?
> 
> Yes ;)
> 
> > What partition table? (fdisk -l /dev/hda or sfdisk -l -x -uS /dev/hda)
> 
> 	 Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       365   2931831   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2           366      1245   7068600    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           366       487    979933+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6          1185      1245    489951   82  Linux swap

Hmm. msdos.c has

                        put_partition(state, slot, start, size == 1 ? 1 : 2);
                        printk(" <");
                        parse_extended(state, bdev, start, size);
                        printk(" >");

The "hda2" is printed by put_partition(). But no " <" is printed.
An impossible error. Recompile your kernel.

Andries


[If a clean compile still fails, add
	printk("partition start %u size %u type %u",
		start, size, SYS_IND(p))
after the
        for (slot = 1 ; slot <= 4 ; slot++, p++) {
                u32 start = START_SECT(p)*sector_size;
                u32 size = NR_SECTS(p)*sector_size;
around line 413 in fs/partitions/msdos.c.]