2.6.8 on AlphaStation 200: "sda: unknown partition table"
Hi!
I got some real good answers here, and with help from that I have made
some progress in migrating to my 2.6 kernel. I still have a problem,
though: 2.6.8 (nor 2.6.7) won't accept my /dev/sda partition table.
Using SRM, /dev/sda (my primary disk, where sda1 is boot, sda2 i swap and
sda3 is the root file system) looks like this:
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octavia:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Detected an OSF/1 disklabel on /dev/sda, entering disklabel mode.
To return to DOS partition table mode, use the 'r' command.
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Running 2.4.20 is just fine. But 2.6.8 will report:
sda: unknown parition table
And then it won't find sda3, and the kernel panics.
The system is upgraded to testing. Filesystem used is ext3.
I have tried configurations that some of you other guys use successfully,
but I get the same result. Perhaps some package in the dist needs to be
upgraded here..?
Anyway, this is what some parts of my (latest tested) .config looks like:
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#
# Partition Types
#
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
# CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set
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#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY is not set
CONFIG_JBD=y
# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=m
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Does anybody have a clue how to solve this?
Regards,
/Joakim
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