Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: MO mounting not working w/ 2.2.3+ | Date | Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:13:33 +0100 (BST) |
| |
> containing random garbage. It happens (with 4.6% probability) > that the kernel at boot time interprets the garbage as a > partition table with an extended partition somewhere, next > tries to read the first sector of that extended partition, > which almost surely is past the end of the disk, gets a read > error and dies (it is long ago, I forgot the details of the > death, probably an infinite `resetting SCSI bus').
You mean a driver bug. If the driver is ok it works
> These days we are getting more and more cruft in genhd.c > to read all kind of partition schemes. Such schemes should > be handled like filesystems are in VFS: invoked, perhaps > from a module, when we mention their name, not autodetected.
The m68k/arm people already have all this much cleaned up fs/partition.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |