On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote:
> I've found a redhat 6.1 installer bug:
>
> If you upgrade your system, redHat 6.1 will crash if you have an NTFS
> partition on the same disk as your root partition, but before it (I have an
> NTFS partition on /dev/sdb5 and my root is /dev/sdb6, for example).
>
> The bug is in /misc/src/anaconda/balkan/dos.c, where they forgot a "break"
> instruction after line 141:
>
> switch (table->parts[i].type) {
> case 0x01:
> case 0x04:
> case 0x06:
> case 0x0b:
> case 0x0c:
> case 0x0e:
> case 0x0f:
> table->parts[i].type = BALKAN_PART_DOS;
> break;
>
> case 0x7:
> table->parts[i].type = BALKAN_PART_NTFS;
> + break; // <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> case 0x83:
> table->parts[i].type = BALKAN_PART_EXT2;
> break;
>
> One solution is to disable the NTFS partition by changing it's type to some
> other type. I've yet to check the "export" mode to see if it bypasses the
> problem.
>
> udi
>
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Nice of you to submit this to the list. Did you submit to Redhat as well?
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