From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partition table read incorrectly
Date: 2 Oct 2001 17:34:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9pdme8$1gp$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011002202934.G14582@wiggy.net> <E15oUUf-0005Xw-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20011002220053.H14582@wiggy.net> <20011002150820.N8954@turbolinux.com>
Followup to: <20011002150820.N8954@turbolinux.com>
By author: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > If that bit is fine then how can it differ in opinion from fdisk?
>
> What does the first 512 bytes of the disk show (od -Ax -tx1 /dev/)?
> Maybe there is still "0xaa55" on the disk at 0x1fe and the kernel
> thinks it is a DOS partition?
>
Note that that is true for *ANY* partition scheme which is bootable,
since this is a requirement of the boot firmware interface, rather of
any particular partitioning scheme...
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-03 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-02 18:29 partition table read incorrectly Wichert Akkerman
2001-10-02 18:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-02 20:00 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-10-02 21:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-03 0:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-10-03 11:22 ` Guest section DW
2001-10-03 12:26 ` [linux-lvm] " Wichert Akkerman
2001-10-03 12:42 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-10-03 13:24 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-10-03 17:09 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-02 22:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-03 0:57 ` Wichert Akkerman
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2001-10-03 16:21 Andries.Brouwer
2001-10-03 17:04 ` Charles Marslett
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