Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:55:30 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.1-pre2 bio offset by one error in VIA IDE |
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On Nov 28, 2001 23:31 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > I just booted my Athlon VIA KT133 chipset box with 2.5.1-pre2 only to > discover it dropped me into single user mode because /dev/hda2 could not be > mounted. (Rebooting into 2.5.0+viro patch everything is ok, back into > 2.5.1-pre2 is broken...) > > Looking with hexedit /dev/hda2 when booted into 2.5.1-pre2 the first sector > contains junk, the second sector contains the real data that I see as the > first sector when booted into 2.5.0+viro fix. > > That suggests to me there is an off by one error in the VIA IDE driver in > the 2.5.10pre2 kernel causing the partition to start one sector earlier > than it should.
It may be an issue with your particular partition table having /dev/hda1 being an odd number of 512-byte sectors long, but Jens' code only doing math on 1kB blocks. Just speculation of course. What does "fdisk -ul" tell you under the two kernels?
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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