Re: [PTBL] Confusion

[Gary Jackson <bargle umiacs umd edu>]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Bill Crawford wrote:

> 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.

It's not, I don't know why the redhat install kernel is picking that
up.  It has a pre-existing valid table on there already, and shouldn't
have anything on there that should leave redhat to believe that it
should start doing geometry translation.

> 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.

Hm, I'm trying to preserve data in the extended partition on hde.  I
don't think wiping out the partition table will help with that ...

Booting a more recent kernel (2.4.18) on one of my 7.1 nodes shows
none of the detection problems that the RedHat install kernel is
having, so I'm guessing that the problem lies squarely with RedHat.

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					Gary Jackson
					bargle umiacs umd edu