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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 cannot find root partition
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:16:30AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yeah, I had this problem on paulus' old PReP machine - I had to
manually zap the AIX magic number to get it to see the perfectly good
partitions.

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