On Wed, 1 May 2002, Gary Jackson wrote: > 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.
It will pick up the geometry that was in use when the partition table was created. I've used this feature to force use of a particular spec sometimes (when moving disks between machines that tend to report the BIOS geometry differently). > > 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. If you want to preserve data, you'll have to keep the existing table, including the geometry used to create it. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
