Re: 2.0.pre37-4: SCSI crash

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:27:43 +0100

Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I cannot boot this version on my server. When doing the partition check,
> it writes the following:
>
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
> sdb:
>
> and then oopses with a kernel NULL pointer (if the exact register dump
> is important, I can reproduce it).

This could be the xlate_1024 bug again, I suppose. Lookup the eip value
and see if that is it. Then change (line ~3405)

if ((drive = get_info_ptr(i_rdev)) == NULL || drive->forced_geom) {
/*
* Update the current 3D drive values.
*/
drive->id->cur_cyls = drive->bios_cyl;

to something like:

if ((drive = get_info_ptr(i_rdev)) == NULL)
return 0;

if (drive->forced_geom) {
/*
* Update the current 3D drive values.
*/
drive->id->cur_cyls = drive->bios_cyl;

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
* "The only thing that interferes with my
*  learning is my education." -- A. Einstein


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