Hubert Tonneau wrote:
>
> 2.6.11 and 2.6.11.7 work fine.
> 2.6.12-rc1 2.6.12-rc2 and 2.6.12-rc3 fail to read partiton table on my laptop,
> also 2.6.12-rc3 works fine on another box also running FullPliant.
I tracked down the trouble to the following patch.
Partitions with type 0 are now ignored, and my hda1 single partition has been
unwisely set so.
The question might be: is it a good idea to introduce that extra constrain
in the middle of a stable serie ?
diff -urN linux-2.6.11/fs/partitions/msdos.c linux-2.6.12-rc3/fs/partitions/msdos.c
--- linux-2.6.11/fs/partitions/msdos.c 2005-03-01 23:38:12.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc3/fs/partitions/msdos.c 2005-04-20 17:03:15.000000000 -0700
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@
*/
for (i=0; i<4; i++, p++) {
u32 offs, size, next;
+
+ if (SYS_IND(p) == 0)
+ continue;
if (!NR_SECTS(p) || is_extended_partition(p))
continue;
@@ -430,6 +433,8 @@
for (slot = 1 ; slot <= 4 ; slot++, p++) {
u32 start = START_SECT(p)*sector_size;
u32 size = NR_SECTS(p)*sector_size;
+ if (SYS_IND(p) == 0)
+ continue;
if (!size)
continue;
if (is_extended_partition(p)) {
-
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