Lost Partition

Vincent Sweeney (v.sweeney@dexterus.com)
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:14:42 +0100


I have just upgrade my kernel to 2.4.12 and in the process I've lost a
partition on my secondary IDE drive. Since this is my /usr partition
it's kind of important ;)

Here is the relevant section from my dmesg output and fdisk (note
/dev/hdb5 is the one missing). The output from fdisk in recovery mode
can see the partition and the ID looks correct but the kernel seems to
have an 'issue'.

If you need any more details just ask.

Vince.

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ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: SAMSUNG SV1021H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SV1021H, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LG CD-ROM CRD-8521B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 19932192 sectors (10205 MB) w/426KiB Cache, CHS=1240/255/63,
UDMA(33)
hdb: 19932192 sectors (10205 MB) w/426KiB Cache, CHS=1240/255/63,
UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 <  >

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Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1240 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda2 10 1240 9888007+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 10 140 1052226 83 Linux /dev/hda6 141 271 1052226 83 Linux /dev/hda7 272 337 530113+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 338 1240 7253316 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1240 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 66 530113+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb2 67 1240 9430155 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 67 1240 9430123+ 83 Linux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/