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and subject line Bug#158531: LILO fails to operate on disks with multiple
extended partitions
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Package: lilo
Version: 22.2-3
(Apologies for the previous emission of this bug report; I had finger trouble
with emacs.)
When I upgraded from potato to woody, I became unable to run lilo. Here's
the output of lilo -v3:
***
LILO version 22.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman
Released 05-Feb-2002 and compiled at 20:57:26 on Apr 13 2002.
MAX_IMAGES = 27
raid_setup returns offset = 00000000
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Device 0x0302: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 4983 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 12594960 sectors.
Secondary loader: 15 sectors.
Device 0x0302: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 4983 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 12594960 sectors.
Boot image: /vmlinuz-scsi
Device 0x0302: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 4983 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 12594960 sectors.
Setup length is 4 sectors.
Mapped 1233 sectors.
Added Linux *
<dev=0xe0,hd=196,cyl=97,sct=216>
"ro root=302 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
Boot image: /vmlinuz-new
Device 0x0302: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 4983 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 12594960 sectors.
Setup length is 4 sectors.
Mapped 1060 sectors.
Added LinuxOLD
<dev=0xe0,hd=196,cyl=97,sct=231>
"ro root=302"
Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 4983 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Device 0x0300: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 4983 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors.
Fatal: invalid partition table: second extended partition found
Removed temporary file /boot/map~
***
The version of lilo provided with Debian 2.2r6 was perfectly willing to accept
this partition table. The kernel I am running is perfectly willing to accept
this partition table. lilo 22.2 and all of woody's fdisk utilities are
not willing to accept this partition table - cfdisk produces an error, while
fdisk refuses to read the extended partition data from /dev/hda4.
Here is the partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4983 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 784 6297448+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 785 915 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 916 3526 20972857+ 85 Linux extended
/dev/hda4 3527 4983 11703352+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 917 949 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 950 2255 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2256 2908 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 2909 3235 2626596 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 3236 3526 2337426 83 Linux
Regards,
Martin Read.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: lilo
Source-Version: 1:22.2-3
Please notice:
> The version of lilo provided with Debian 2.2r6 was perfectly willing to
> accept this partition table. The kernel I am running is perfectly willing
> to accept this partition table. lilo 22.2 and all of woody's fdisk
> utilities are not willing to accept this partition table - cfdisk produces
> an error, while fdisk refuses to read the extended partition data
> from /dev/hda4.
This bug relates to the old version 1:22.2-3 which are out of scope.
We believe that the bug you reported related to changes on newer kernels
and have nothing to do with lilo.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
Joachim Wiedorn <[email protected]> (supplier of updated lilo package)
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