problems with looped extended partitions

Alex Miller (asm@som.kiev.ua)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:23:30 +0200 (EET)


In file genhd.c at line 205 is eternal loop, which produce potential
problems when we have record in partition table, pointed at yourself. In this
case kernel hangs while booting.
All this work in stable and development kernels, and seems to be in
long awaited 2.2.0. :(

-- 
Alex Miller
asmm@usa.net

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