From: David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
To: david.balazic@uni.mb.si
Subject: Re: Linux can't find partitions , again
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:41:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B6A7FD3.15549CB0@uni-mb.si> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B6A739A.7D6197CD@uni-mb.si>
Please, LKML people only reply to LKML ( and me ),
ignore the redhat address.
Redhat people , do the opposite.
Seems that my mail server discloses "BCC:" fields if there is no "To:" field ...
Sorry.
David Balazic wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Yesterday I did "nothing" (*) and then linux didn't boot anymore.
> It couldn't mount the root FS.
> After I fixed that , it couldn't turn on the swap partition.
>
> This really pisses me off ! ( I am cool now, you should see me yesterday )
>
> The problem was that the partitions were renumbered "randomly"
> and linux just can not deal with that. Before linux named the root FS
> partition hda6, but now he names it hda7. Off course the kernel still looks
> for hda6 and fails. After I fix LILO , it boots, but fails to turn on the swap
> as it was renamed from hda7 to hda5. I edit /etc/fstab and all is well.
> Until next time.
>
> This has bitten me and my neighbour enough times that I wrote a kernel patch
> to fix ( 99% fix ) the first problem ( root-FS ) and I don't write kernel patches
> every week !
> I didn't address the second problem ( swap ).
>
> The patch works by scanning all known partitions for a matching ext2 UUID ( or label ).
> Maybe a simpler solution would be to search the partition list for a particular
> disk ( hda ) for a partition which has a particular (start,size) pair ? ( less disk access,
> FS-type neutral , would work for the swap problem too )
>
> Patch available at
> http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com/v2.2-f/uuid.html
>
> Opinions ?
>
> * - I created a partition on the free part of the disk, but after a minute
> I changed my mind an deleted it. I used the Disk Administrator tools undwr win2000
>
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2001-08-03 9:49 Linux can't find partitions , again David Balazic
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