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From: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Subject: Alpha no longer recognises certain partition tables (v2.6.38)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:06:25 +1300
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v2.6.38 boot reports it can't recognise the partition table on the 
system disk on my Alpha and panics when it can't find the root device.

It worked at v2.6.38-rc7.

While I haven't done a bisect to fully verify I nevertheless suggest the 
following patch as the likely cause:

1eafbfe Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsing

Cheers
Michael.