Bug 120815

Summary: GPT disk can't be handled by kernel-2.6.5-1.319
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Shinya Narahara <naraha_s>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Shinya Narahara 2004-04-14 04:21:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
kernel-2.6.5-1.319 can't handle partitions in GPT.
For example, 

# parted /dev/sda
(Omitted)
Using /dev/sda
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-34732.890 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor   Start        End    Filesystem     Name    Flags
1         0.017    128.016  fat16                  boot
2       128.017   4224.016  ext3
3      4224.017   5248.016  linux-swap
4      5248.017  34732.874  ext3
(parted) quit

# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/sda5 is not a valid block device

However the kernel can handle fine the MS-DOS disk label.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.5-1.319

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make gpt partitions by using parted
2.boot with kernel-2.6.5-1.319
3.mount partitions in gpt.


Actual Results:  mount: /dev/sda5 is not valid block device

Expected Results:  mounted normally.

Additional info:

GPT is used by Windows2003 Server, this is important to
support this. RHEL3 kernel(2.4.21-4.EL) can handle this,
but this kernel is based 2.6...
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2004-05-03 07:26:33 UTC 
fixed in rawhide, even though fedora core has no ia64 release.