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SubjectRe: Simple partition not detected with 2.6
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:05:17PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:17:46PM +0100, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
>
> > I have one computer which has two partitions per disk.
> > This partition is seen by a 2.4.xx kernel (knoppix) but
> > not by a 2.6.0t7 kernel.
> >
> > When booting the knoppix, dmesg says:
> >
> > hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63
> > hdc: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63
> > ide-cd: passing drive hde to ide-scsi emulation.
> > Partition check:
> > hda: [PTBL] [9729/255/63] hda1 hda2
> > hdc: [PTBL] [9729/255/63] hdc1 hdc2
> >
> >
> > But the 2.6.0t7 does not see the partition table.
> > Other disks are properly recognized, so it seems to
> > be a problem with [PTBL] and 2.6 ...
>
> The [PTBL] part just says that this 2.4 kernel first concluded to
> a 155061/16/63 geometry but then saw the partition table and
> changed it mind to 9729/255/63.
> It is unrelated to partition recognition.
>
> Check that your kernel was compiled without CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED,
> or, in case you selected advanced, has CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION selected.

Yes, I have CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED, CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION and also LDM
partitions support.

I've attached a boot log.
In fact it seems that it's not a partitions problem but a disk
detection problem: the IDE controller is detected but not the disks...

The server is an HP-DL320 with integrated RAID IDE.

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