Re: boot-failure-2.3.99-pre10-2

From: Andries Brouwer (aeb@veritas.com)
Date: Sat May 27 2000 - 05:43:37 EST


On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 11:53:41PM -0400, auggie@3web.net wrote:

>>>>> 2.3.99-pre7-5 runs ok, however, with 2.3.99-pre10-2 it fails:
>>>>> 16:42: rw=0, want=2, limit=1
>>>>
>>>> This is typically what one would get if the kernel wants
>>>> to boot from /dev/hdd2 where /dev/hdd2 is an extended partition.
>>>
>>> The hdd2 partition is not an extended partition, it is a
>>> logical linux type 83.
>>
>> What is the "Partition check:" that you get from 2.3.99-pre10-2?

> I have now tried 2.4.0-test1-ac2 and the trouble persists.
> The Partition Check is:
> hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6>
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
> hdc: [PTBL] [1661/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 <hdc5>
> hdd: [PTBL] [1232/255/63] hdd1 hdd2 <hdd5 hdd6 hdd7>
>
> 2.3.99-pre7-5 boots ok and its Partition Check is:
> hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6>
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
> hdc: [PTBL] [1661/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3
> hdd: [PTBL] [1232/255/63] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4

Yes, precisely as expected. You see that under 2.4.0-test1-ac2
you have extended partitions hdc2 and hdd2 where these
partitions are ordinary primary partitions under 2.3.99-pre7-5.

Interesting. Apparently something changed in the partition
handling. What architecture - i386? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD not set?
No LVM or RAID? What does "sfdisk -l -x -uS /dev/hdd" say?

Andries

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