> > What did you do in mac-fdisk to get a kernel panic? What kernel version > > did you use? > > Ethan told me on IRC that this is a known problem with all PowerPC > kernels to date. Apparently there is a race condition involved in > (re-)reading the partition table from a drive.
Imagine my surprise - I thought it might be a mac-fdisk bug (though I'm sure it never happened to me). What kernel versions are affected? Maybe it's possible to sync before rereading the partition table or something? Michael