> As I see it, we have 3 options: > > 1. Fix the kernel > 2. Fix all the other tools (parted, dosemu) > 3. a Workaround witch patches mbr and partition tables. > > The first one is a solution for SATA in the same manner as the existing PATA > fix. > See this post in LKML: > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0602.1/0898.html > Maybe we should contact Seewer Philippe..?? Might be a good idea.
> The Unattended Project is THE user for a patch like this! > > Second one: Pat tried this in 2004.. !! Who want to take a dive into Dosemu?? > > Third: This is the ugly one. I have briefly looked into it, but I do not > understand all the hairy details. > > Please comment :-) > I'd suggest analysis first: We need a tool/script/whatever which summarizes all relevant data of a drive in this situation. It should kick in before/after dosemu runs so we can _really_ check what's the problem of a certain drive/bios/board/whatever combination. So the situation perhaps should be reproducible (I think of e.g. doing a dd of the partition sectors of this drive), and may be we need the view from the windows side (e.g using BartPE), too. For the script I could think of at least output from uname -a fdisk -l ; fdisk -v parted /dev/dsk print ; parted --version cat /sys/block/?da/settings what else would be needed here? Of course there should be a way to write it on a network drive for reporting. Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl.-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH www.smi-softmark.de Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
