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Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO



> > What did you do in mac-fdisk to get a kernel panic? What kernel version
> > did you use?
>
> Ethan told me on IRC that this is a known problem with all PowerPC
> kernels to date.  Apparently there is a race condition involved in
> (re-)reading the partition table from a drive.

Imagine my surprise - I thought it might be a mac-fdisk bug (though I'm
sure it never happened to me).
What kernel versions are affected? Maybe it's possible to sync before
rereading the partition table or something?

	Michael



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