Re: 2.6.8/2.6.9 Unable to mount ext3 root-fs
From: Lawrence DčOliveiro (ldo_at_geek-central.gen.new_zealand)
Date: 11/05/04
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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:52:46 +1300
In article <85oeigobyl.fsf@ConSol.de>,
Peter Weiss <Peter.Weiss@ConSol.de> wrote:
>According to the manpage of sfdisk here's the diagnostic output:
>
>Astor:~# sfdisk -V -l -x
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 116280 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
>Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
>DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
>Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
> for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 116280/16/63).
>For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Bingo. Sounds exactly like the situation described in
<http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/>. Try the fix there and see if it helps.
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