On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 09:37:26AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > So what happens exactly? Can you reproduce this on something and decode > the oops? Looking in 2.4.15-pre2 I don't see the mac partition table > stuffs not doing something the msdos ones do.. enter the `w' command to commit a new partition table mac-fdisk writes out the new one, synced the disk mac-fdisk calls the reread ioctl kernel panics (sometimes) i cannot reproduce this sorry, the only time ive seen it personally was when partitioning a silver G4 i was setting up for someone, and i obviously cannot and will not destroy the installed debian system there in an attempt to reproduce this. one other note that just occured to me, i could only reproduce the problem on that G4 *once* and that one time was when i obliterated the crufty partition table containing all the macos crap, all subsequent partition tables were free of any driver cruft, only pure linux partitions and an Apple_Bootstrap. when setting it up i intentionally tried writing a few new tables just to see, could never reproduce it again. perhaps all that cruft has something to do with it? though i don't see how... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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