From: Mark Fortescue <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:31:16 +0100 (BST) > This version alows the condition you indicated (VTOC sanity=0,version=0 > and no_partitions=0) to work as before as long as what were the spare1/spare2 > fields in the VTOC partition entries are zero. > > Can you try it out and see if it behaves correctly for fully set up VTOC > and also the previous Linux-Sun partition situation. > > This should at least prevent some posible problems with posible future > versions of VTOC. It may be desirable to to reject partitions if the > VTOC is not compatible (different sanity or version > 1). What is your view? > > The code will now also scan up to VTOC partitions when a validated VTOC > has been detected. It looks like it would work and I will give it some testing, thanks Mark. Why don't we want to try and use 16-partition x86 Solaris labels? Are those only found as sub-labels of MSDOS partitions? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
