> > The kernel 2.6.18-3-686 detects a wrong harddisk size, which leads
> > to "access beyond end of device" errors and thereby makes the system
> > unusable. The corresponding partition cannot be mounted. Even cfdisk
> > does not run, because it detects a corrupted partition table.
>
> It also reports that the partition exceeds the disk, why? The error
> message just reports that it tries to access sectors beyond the reported
> size.
Dec 13 13:35:04 werckmeister kernel: sda: p7 exceeds device capacity
The drive has 80MB, as stated by the manufacturer and correctly reported by
the 2.6.17 and previous kernels: SCSI device sda: 156368016 512-byte hdwr
sectors (80060 MB).
The disc was partitioned when the kernel saw the whole disk, i.e. 156368016
blocks. 2.6.18 sees only 139968963 blocks (16399053 blocks are missing), but
the last partition ends after block 139968963.
Partition table:
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID)
Flag
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
1 Primary 0 146834099 63 146834100 W95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F)
Boot
5 Logical 63* 1108484 63 1108422*Linux swap / So (82)
None
6 Logical 1108485 32579819 63 31471335 Linux (83)
None
7 Logical 32579820 146834099 63 114254280 Linux (83)
None
Pri/Log 146834100 156360644 0 9526545 Free Space
None
Klaus
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