kernel can not scan partition table of hdd?

kernel can not scan partition table of hdd?

[Luben Karavelov]

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Hello,
I have the following proble. After I have upgraded the 
kernel from from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 I have found that the new
kernel can not scan the partition table of the disk - it
freezes for a moment and than i continue but it can not
find the root device after that.
The situation with 2.4.10-pre14 and 2.4.9-ac14 is the same.
I haven't tried kernel 2.4.8 but with 2.4.7 and previous 
kernels it works fine.

The partition table of the disk is:
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/hda1   *         1        39     78592+  83  Linux
   /dev/hda2            40       562   1054368    5  Extended
   /dev/hda3           563       621    118944   82  Linux swap
   /dev/hda5            40       354    635008+  83  Linux
   /dev/hda6           355       451    195520+  83  Linux
   /dev/hda7           452       562    223744+  83  Linux

the chipset of the ide controller is VIA82C59x. The disk is quantum
fireball_tm1280a ata.

Any ideas? If the partition table of the disk is not correct, how to
fix it?

Luben

P.S. Please cc me, because I'm not in the list.

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Re: kernel can not scan partition table of hdd?

[Guest section DW]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:16:23AM +0300, Luben Karavelov wrote:

> If the partition table of the disk is not correct,
> how to fix it?

Your partition table looks fine, nothing wrong with that.

But the partition table is the very first thing the kernel
tries to read from disk, so probably disk reading fails.

> I have the following problem. After I have upgraded the 
> kernel from from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 I have found that the new
> kernel can not scan the partition table of the disk - it
> freezes for a moment and than i continue but it cannot
> find the root device after that.
> The situation with 2.4.10-pre14 and 2.4.9-ac14 is the same.
> The chipset of the ide controller is VIA82C59x. The disk is
> Quantum Fireball tm1280a ATA.