Re: Weird partititon recocnising problem in 2.6.0-testX

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi Andries.

> 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.

I wouldn't say it's impossible. If the partition isn't recognized
as extended for some reason that code won't be called, will it?
And it'll only print "hda2" for him then.

// Stefan

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