Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Fwd: PROBLEM: ide messages during boot caused by a strange partition table | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:31:08 +0100 |
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Ar Llu, 2006-07-31 am 16:43 +0200, ysgrifennodd marco gaddoni: > the disk before was correctly booting linux and windows2000. > then i used the dos6.22 fdisk (?? unsure about the exact dos version)
The DOS fdisk will rewrite the C/H/S values on the drive in some cases if the drive is a vaguely modern setup. That will trash all the partition data you have and can lead to corruption of the data too. If you are luck the drive geometry originally used may match the one in hdparm -I
If you can work out the original geometry values then put those back and fsck all the partitions with file systems on them you may be ok.
Alan
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