From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: olh@suse.de, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: 2.6.19 cannot find root partition
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:16:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061206211630.GB27857@krispykreme> (raw)
Hi,
The patch to identify AIX disks and ignore them has caused at least one
machine to fail to find the root partition on 2.6.19. The patch is:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/117
The problem is some disk formatters do not blow away the first 4 bytes
of the disk. If the disk we are installing to used to have AIX on it,
then the first 4 bytes will still have IBMA in EBCDIC.
The install in question was debian etch. Im not sure what the best fix
is, perhaps the AIX detection code could check more than the first 4
bytes.
Anton
next reply other threads:[~2006-12-06 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-06 21:16 Anton Blanchard [this message]
2006-12-06 21:24 ` 2.6.19 cannot find root partition Olaf Hering
2006-12-06 22:22 ` David Gibson
2006-12-07 8:17 ` Olaf Hering
2007-01-04 8:40 ` [PATCH] relax check for AIX in msdos partition table Olaf Hering
2007-01-04 13:20 ` [PATCH] fix logic error in AIX detection Olaf Hering
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