Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: partition table read incorrectly | Date | 2 Oct 2001 17:34:16 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20011002150820.N8954@turbolinux.com> By author: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > If that bit is fine then how can it differ in opinion from fdisk? > > What does the first 512 bytes of the disk show (od -Ax -tx1 /dev/)? > Maybe there is still "0xaa55" on the disk at 0x1fe and the kernel > thinks it is a DOS partition? >
Note that that is true for *ANY* partition scheme which is bootable, since this is a requirement of the boot firmware interface, rather of any particular partitioning scheme...
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