Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:13:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christian Staudenmayer <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.67-ac2 and lilo |
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Hey Andries,
before taking your message into account, i think you misunderstood my question:
> Hmm. You did not forget to rerun LILO or so?
the error occurs when _running_ lilo, i.e. after typing "lilo" at the prompt.
greetings, chris
--- Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote: > > but now, when running lilo, i get the following message: > > > > Fatal: First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature > > Hmm. You did not forget to rerun LILO or so? > If ide_xlate_1024 does nothing but "return 0" then > handle_ide_mess() does nothing. > > What other differences does -ac2 have? > It reintroduces a bug in the partition reading code - the fragment > > @@ -456,7 +556,7 @@ > if (!subtypes[n].parse) > continue; > subtypes[n].parse(state, bdev, START_SECT(p)*sector_size, > - NR_SECTS(p)*sector_size, slot); > + NR_SECTS(p)*sector_size, n); > } > put_dev_sector(sect); > > of the -ac2 patch is bad. > In order to judge whether it is this or something else I would have > to know much more about your system. What are the kernel boot messages > for this disk under 2.5.67-bk9 that works and 2.5.67-ac2 that fails? > What is the partition table? No disk managers in sight? Does LILO > have lba32 or linear options? > Does 2.5.67-ac2 work if you replace its fs/partitions/msdos.c by > the vanilla one? > > Andries >
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