From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 14:56:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40BA2E5E.6090603@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040530183609.GB5927@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
Andries Brouwer wrote:
> The link you give describes a user space problem.
> The fdisk versions that I maintain all work fine - apparently
> Fedora Core uses something else to change partition tables,
> and that something else makes assumptions that are invalid.
> (Maybe it uses parted?)
>
> I can tell you in great detail all about disk geometry,
> and the 2.4 situation and the 2.6 situation.
Please educate me :) Brutally, and in public :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-30 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-30 18:04 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting Jeff Garzik
2004-05-30 18:36 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-05-30 18:56 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-05-30 20:03 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-05-30 20:47 ` viro
2004-05-30 21:06 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-05-30 21:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-30 21:14 ` viro
2004-05-30 21:02 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-30 22:20 ` Andries Brouwer
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20040530222001.GD4681@apps.cwi.nl>
2004-05-30 22:54 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-31 18:08 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-05-31 19:19 ` Frediano Ziglio
2004-05-31 20:06 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-31 21:03 ` Sean Estabrooks
2004-06-01 15:10 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-06-01 23:55 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-06-02 13:02 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-06-02 15:00 ` Matt Domsch
2004-06-02 21:22 ` [PATCH] Better names for EDD legacy_* fields Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-06-02 23:03 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-06-02 23:38 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-06-02 23:53 ` [PATCH] Use decimal instead of hex for EDD values Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-06-01 16:28 ` 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting Stephen Hemminger
2004-06-03 6:51 ` Frediano Ziglio
2004-06-03 10:39 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-06-03 12:30 ` Frediano Ziglio
2004-06-03 14:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-06-03 15:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-06-03 14:46 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-06-03 15:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-06-03 15:55 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-30 19:35 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
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