On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:26:02PM +0100, Franco Tassone wrote: > > Try both - I am interested if my patch works as we could incorporate > > into the mainstream kernel. > > Hi Florian, > > installed a 2.4.16 kernel with your patch and it didn't autorun the array. > Moreover I had to change the followind line in your patch: Did you set the partition table entry type to 0xfd ? > + md_autodetect_dev(MKDEV(hd->major,*current_minor)); > The compiler doen't like this line, I changed like this: > + md_autodetect_dev(MKDEV(hd->major,current_minor)); Ok > Now I'm trying to user a dos disklabel on my Indigo2, but I do have a > concern: how can I install the kernel image via dvhtool ? The dvhtool > doesn't find any volume header when I try to install the kernel: > > dvhtool -d /dev/sda --unix-to-vh /boot/vmlinux > Bad magic > dvh_open: Bad volume header > Can't open Disk Volume Header You can't boot from dos partitioned disks. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Heisenberg may have been here.
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