Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails to read partition table

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On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:37:54PM +0000, 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.
> 
> The partition table has been created by Pliant partition tool:
> http://fullpliant.org/pliant/linux/storage/partition.pli
> function 'partition_create' at line 52.

[Heve been away for a while, sorry for a slow reaction]

Yes. I see you create partitions using

ph type := (shunt fs="ext2" or fs="xfs" 83h fs="swap" 82h fs="raid" 0FDh 0)

and it looks like the final 0 is the culprit here.
Earlier Linux disregarded partition types, today 0 means "unused".

Andries
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