Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bug, 2.5.29, IDE] partition table corruption? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 08 Aug 2002 13:30:30 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 10:34, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > [mingo@a mingo]$ ls -l /sbin/lilo > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59324 Aug 23 2000 /sbin/lilo > > Yes sure. It is simply a very old bug in lilo, which the kernel worked > around and did fight against in a diallectic way.
Its not a bug in lilo. Its a bug in the new kernel. Breaking backward compatibility arbitarily is bad. The kernel needs to know geometry anyway for the folks who have force ide translation
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