Re: [bug, 2.5.29, IDE] partition table corruption?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
08 Aug 2002 13:30:30 +0100

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 10:34, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> > [mingo@a mingo]$ ls -l /sbin/lilo
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59324 Aug 23 2000 /sbin/lilo
>
> Yes sure. It is simply a very old bug in lilo, which the kernel worked
> around and did fight against in a diallectic way.

Its not a bug in lilo. Its a bug in the new kernel. Breaking backward
compatibility arbitarily is bad. The kernel needs to know geometry
anyway for the folks who have force ide translation

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