On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 07:07:40PM -0800, Michael Lyle wrote: >> I think the probable cause is this: we construct bios based on >> previously completed bios in a few places, > > That is an extremely bad idea in many ways, so I think we'll need > to fix this as the priority. Yah, sorry, this wasn't actually the case. I was sleep deprived and hadn't been able to follow it all yet. Bart points out that there's many remaining cases of assignment of disk where partno isn't assigned as well-- so I wonder if there are other potential problems from this. Mike