Re: [PTBL] Confusion

[Bill Crawford <redhat billemon org uk>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Gary Jackson wrote:

> The kernel that the RH7.2 install boots does drive geometry
> translation on the first IDE disk, when I'm trying to upgrade it:
> 
> hde: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdf: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdg: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdh: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=148945/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> Partition check:
>  hde: [PTBL] [9345/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4
>  hdf: hdf1
>  hdg: hdg1 hdg2 hdg3
>  hdh: hdh1
> 
> This is wrong.  I don't know where it's getting that partition table
> from.

 It will pick up whatever is on the disk; this may be random garbage
or a valid partition table.  This looks like a valid table.

 Use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hde bs=512 count=2" to wipe the existing
table, then sync and reboot.  You should see this effect disappear.