Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jan 2000 20:27:33 +0100 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.40-pre1: Partition Enumeration |
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:37:55PM -0800, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure the current algorithm for enumerating 3rd party > partitions is perfect. It makes it very hard to switch between > booting kernels with and without support for those partitions. E.g. I have > 2.2.12 from Red Hat 6.1 that has no support for UnixWare and FreeBSD > partitions and now use 2.3.40-pre1 with support for those two and all my > normal (i.e. Linux ext2) partitions get shifted around. That;s not good.
Yes, a well-known complaint. Some time ago I sent a patch to someone with the same problem. The comment + /* Look for partitions in two passes: + First find the primary partitions, and the DOS-type extended partitions. + On the second pass look inside *BSD and Unixware and Solaris partitions. */ shows what it does.
The patch was for 2.3.29 - will check that it still applies and post it here later this evening. It also solves the problem people had where only one BSD partition was detected.
Andries
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