Bug#402946: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: wrong harddisk size detected
severity 402946 important
tags 402946 moreinfo
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:00:02PM +0100, Klaus Schneider wrote:
> Justification: breaks the whole system
It must break it for all many people not only for you. The kernel is the
system so it can't break more.
> 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.
Bastian
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