This returns lilo to functionality when the appropriate
disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible
lines are present.
Available in convenient dpatch format. It
should be applied immediately, to a high-priority upload.
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As noted in the patch description, this eliminates at least one
of the failure modes:
Fatal: '/dev/sdb' is not a whole disk device
I believe it also eliminates this failure mode. Andrew Moise
might care to confirm:
Fatal: stat /dev/sda: No such file or directory
It doesn't eliminate the third failure mode, which occurs when
a device node is missing:
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
Name change: '/dev/sdb' -> '/dev/sdb'
Cannot proceed maybe you need to add this to your lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible
(real error shown below)
Fatal: open /dev/sdb: No such file or directory
This third failure mode can be worked around by creating the
appropriate device nodes. That is obviously extremely suboptimal,
so I wouldn't close the bug just yet.
----
--
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it.
So why isn't he in prison yet?...
#! /bin/sh -e
##
## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
## DP: Make sure that disks marked 'inaccessible' do not have their
## DP: partition tables checked and do not have 'stat' run.
## DP: Doesn't fix the crash on missing /dev nodes, unfortunately.
[ -f debian/patches/00patch-opts ] && . debian/patches/00patch-opts
patch_opts="${patch_opts:--f --no-backup-if-mismatch}"
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo >&2 "`basename $0`: script expects -patch|-unpatch as argument
"
exit 1
fi
case "$1" in
-patch) patch $patch_opts -p1 < $0;;
-unpatch) patch $patch_opts -p1 -R < $0;;
*)
echo >&2 "`basename $0`: script expects -patch|-unpatch
as argument"
exit 1;;
esac
exit 0
@DPATCH@
--- geometry.c.old 2006-09-09 02:43:12.000000000 -0400
+++ geometry.c 2006-09-09 16:33:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -273,15 +273,17 @@
int major;
entry = alloc_t(DT_ENTRY);
+ cfg_init(cf_disk);
+ (void) cfg_parse(cf_disk);
disk = cfg_get_strg(cf_options,"disk");
- if (stat(disk,&st) < 0) die("stat %s: %s",disk,strerror(errno));
- if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode) ||
- (has_partitions(st.st_rdev) && (MINOR(st.st_rdev) &
P_MASK(st.st_rdev))))
- die(" '%s' is not a whole disk device",disk);
+ if (!cfg_get_flag(cf_disk,"inaccessible")) {
+ if (stat(disk,&st) < 0) die("stat %s: %s",disk,strerror(errno));
+ if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode) ||
+ (has_partitions(st.st_rdev) && (MINOR(st.st_rdev) &
P_MASK(st.st_rdev))))
+ die(" '%s' is not a whole disk device",disk);
+ }
entry->device = st.st_rdev;
major = MAJOR(st.st_rdev);
- cfg_init(cf_disk);
- (void) cfg_parse(cf_disk);
bios = cfg_get_strg(cf_disk,"bios");
sectors = cfg_get_strg(cf_disk,"sectors");
heads = cfg_get_strg(cf_disk,"heads");
