To the lists: Pardon me for a userland-type question, but is this going to be a problem if I want to mount advfs disks? Or even some old OSF1 disks (that have some quite valuable GIS covers on them)? Just curious. jn On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:23:43 +1300, Michael Cree wrote > On 16/03/2011, at 4:10 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > >> 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 > > > > That sounds likely. What does something like the attached do? In > > particular, what's the printed-out value of the OSF npartitions thing? > > > > Also, it's quite possible that we should raise the value of > > MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS. If I checked it right, the d_partitions[] array > > starts at byte offset 148 in the sector, and it's 16 bytes in size, so > > there _could_ be up to 22 partitions there. The fact that we had > > defined the 'struct disklabel' to only contain 8 partitions is I think > > from documentation, not a technical "there can be only eight". > > I am not able to run the patch until much later today but I think > the number of partitions is the issue. I have three disks, all > with bsd type partition tables, and the kernel sees the partition > tables of two of them (they both have fewer than five partitions) > but the system disk has about nine (or it might be ten) partitions. > I didn't know the limit when creating them some time ago and > assumed fdisk would flag an error if the number of permitted > partitions was exceeded! What's more it worked with recent kernels > until now. > > I'll give the patch a whirl later (my) today. > > Cheers > Michael. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux- > alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More > majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
