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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: marco gaddoni <marco.gaddoni@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: PROBLEM: ide messages during boot caused by a strange partition table
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:31:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154356290.7230.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b2bc9d0607310617p21552cc8xba66f935b9ec73bd@mail.gmail.com>

Ar Llu, 2006-07-31 am 15:17 +0200, ysgrifennodd marco gaddoni:
> is it correct that the max lba sect is LBAsects=156368016 and the kernel
> is asking for 1052835654, 10 times more ?

No you are right - I miscounted the digits in the original report. 

I'm still dubious the partition table is involved unless you've since
booted Windows and the two have been overwriting bits of each other.

What tool created the broken partition table - do you know, and which OS
was installed first ?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-31 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3b2bc9d0607302313p637ce780sf98b1727213bd6a2@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-31  6:16 ` Fwd: PROBLEM: ide messages during boot caused by a strange partition table marco gaddoni
2006-07-31 11:05   ` Alan Cox
2006-07-31 13:17     ` marco gaddoni
2006-07-31 14:31       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-07-31 14:43         ` marco gaddoni
2006-07-31 15:31           ` Alan Cox

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