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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:17:32 +0100
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.19 cannot find root partition
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On Thu, Dec 07, David Gibson wrote:

> 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.

Something like this in aix_label_present should do it, beside
echo > /dev/sda

        struct partition *pt = (struct partition *) (p + 0x1be);
        int slot;
        for (slot = 1; slot <= 4; slot++, pt++) {
                if (pt->sys_ind == LINUX_SWAP_PARTITION ||
                        pt->sys_ind == LINUX_RAID_PARTITION ||
                        pt->sys_ind == 0x83 ||
                        pt->sys_ind == 0x8e ||
                        is_extended_partition(pt))
                        return 0;
        }