Re: latest current fails to mount root

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

> If he's seeing what I saw, he'd better not try to use the disk -- I
> ended up scrambling my disk so badly I had use the Lenovo restore
> CDs, which wipe everything from the fdisk partition on up.

> In other words, the problem was that it really couldn't see most of
> the disk, so it scribbled in bad places...

Well, I wouldn't expect it to actually try to access the space between
the end of the unit and the end of the partition; that should draw an
error from the driver without touching the hardware.  But it should let
me at the disk up to the smaller of the two sizes.

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