Bug 113865
| Summary: | Reading partition table on some usb keys | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Leon Bottou <leon> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | riel |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:41:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux; X11; i686) Description of problem: This might indicate some bug in the partition table reading code. I have a cheap usb key (sandisk mini cruzer 128M - SDCZ2-128) After buying the key, I noticed that it would cause a kernel crash in mandrake but work under redhat. Switched mandrake for redhat-9. Lately, I updated to kernel 2.4.20-28.[789] and got the same crashes as Mandrake. I googled for solutions and found a small message saying that making two partitions sometimes helps. I rebooted the old kernel, ran fdisk to create two partitions instead of just one. Now my key seems to work everywhere (mandrake, redhat including 2.4.20-28). Question: is there a bug somewhere in the partition table reading? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-28.[789] How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I tried this using - A fujitsu S4542 laptop running RH7.3 (P3m-600M) - A dell precision 340 (P4-1.8G-Intel850) running RH8.0 - A shuttle SS51G (P4-2G-SIS651+962) [usb2] 1. Get a USB key Sandisk Mini Cruzer 128M (SDCZ2-128) 2. Plug with kernel 2.4.20-28.[789] (kernel crash) 3. Plug with kernel 2.4.20-27.[789] (works!) 4. Repartition with fdisk. - one vfat partition with 249 cylinders - one ext2 partition with 1 cylinder (512Kb) 5. Plug with kernel 2.4.20-28.[789] (works now!) Additional info: