Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:12:00 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: either kernel or fdisk does not understand Win95 extended partitions. |
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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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