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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
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Martin,

> > however partitions (of the MS-DOS type) are not recognised with any of
> > the disks including one holding the root device, so the system fails
> > to mount the root filesystem and therefore does not complete booting:
> 
> My mistake. An unrelated change to the revalidate logic in the last
> patch. Fixed and pushed.

 No worries, I'm glad I helped catch it early.  This version boots 
multi-user.

> For your Mylex issue I believe the first patch in the series is all
> that's needed:
> 
> 06a471da0937 ("scsi: core: Query VPD size before getting full page")

 It is.  Thanks for sorting out this issue!

  Maciej