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SubjectRe: either kernel or fdisk does not understand Win95 extended partitions.


On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Guest section DW wrote:

> > Do I need a more recent version of fdisk? Is the kernel busted?
>
> I think we must first find out what partition table you have.
> Please send me the output of
>
> sfdisk -l -x -uS /dev/hda
>
> Andries
> aeb@cwi.nl
>
>
> [I would also be interested in the sequence of events that lead
> to this. Recently I have seen a few people with very strange
> partition tables, and I would like to know what the cause of
> this sudden flurry of peculiarities is. Did you use Disk Druid?
> Did you mix for example Win98 FDISK and WinNT FDISK?]

Add to your collection the following example: guy installed RH on
/dev/hda and got the type of /dev/hdb1 changed from 0xa5 to 0xb5. /dev/hdb
had only one partition, full-size (and used for FreeBSD). Both Linux and
FreeBSD loader were not happy about it - the former simply didn't see the
disklabel, the latter refused to boot. After changing the type back to
0xa5 everything worked fine.


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