Re: 2.5.30 LILO FreeBSD partition problems

Skip Ford (skip.ford@verizon.net)
Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:17:14 -0400

Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 07:00:21PM -0400, Skip Ford wrote:
>
> > While running 2.5.30 I receive this error when running LILO with a
> > FreeBSD partition in lilo.conf
> >
> > Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 3rd entry
> > 3D address: 1/0/530 (534240)
> > Linear address: 1/14/8446 (8514450)
> >
> > I removed the fbsd entry and LILO had no problems. I then booted
> > to 2.4 and readded the fbsd partition and it installed fine.
>
> Which LILO version is this?

21.4-3

> What do cfdisk -Ps /dev/hda

Partition Table for /dev/hda

First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- ---------
1 Primary 0 8193149 63 8193150 Win95 FAT32 (0B) Boot (80)
2 Primary 8193150 8514449 0 321300 Linux native (83) None (00)
3 Primary 8514450 26957069 0 18442620 BSD/386 (A5) None (00)
4 Primary 26957070 39873329 0 12916260 Extended (05) None (00)
5 Logical 26957070 35150219 63 8193150 Linux native (83) None (00)
6 Logical 35150220 35471519 63 321300 Linux native (83) None (00)
7 Logical 35471520 35567909 63 96390 Linux swap (82) None (00)
8 Logical 35567910 39873329 63 4305420 Linux native (83) None (00)

> and cfdisk -Pt /dev/hda say?

Partition Table for /dev/hda

---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
1 0x80 1 1 0 0x0B 254 63 509 63 8193087
2 0x00 0 1 510 0x83 254 63 529 8193150 321300
3 0x00 0 1 530 0xA5 254 63 1023 8514450 18442620
4 0x00 254 63 1023 0x05 254 63 1023 26957070 12916260
5 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 8193087
6 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 321237
7 0x00 254 63 1023 0x82 254 63 1023 63 96327
8 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 4305357

> What are the kernel boot messages for this disk
> (dmesg | grep hda), both for 2.5.29

hda: Maxtor 2B020H1, DISK drive
hda: 39876480 sectors w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: [PTBL] [2482/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hda0: <bsd: hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 hda14 >

> and 2.5.30?

hda: Maxtor 2B020H1, DISK drive
hda: 39876480 sectors w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hda3: <bsd: hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 hda14 >

> Probably some LILO option like "ignore-table" or "linear" or "lba32"
> would help. But it is interesting to see where this 1/0/530 comes from.]

lba32 and linear each didn't work. I didn't try ignore-table. I see
the difference above between .29 and .30 with [PTBL] but I don't know
what it means.

-- 
Skip
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