Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:53:51 +1000 | From | Chai Harjo <> | Subject | Re: paritition numbers changing? |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 15:45:08 -0400 (EDT) > From: Ray Lehtiniemi <rayl@crosskeys.com> > > > Any one can provide some enlightenment? > > nope, but i can second the report. that happened to me when i first > started using linux. 2 gig scsi split between linux and dos/nt (so i > removed the bsd list from the followup) this occurred with 1.2.13 > and 1.3.18 and 1.3.88 kernels, using the fdisk et al. from the april 1996 > infomagic disks, slackware distribution. > > Did you use fdisk to create the first partition on the disk? There was > a bug with some of the old fdisk programs where they created a partition > table where the linear and the cylinder/track/sector representations > didn't match up. Linux itself doesn't care about cyl/track/sector, but > LILO does (since it uses BIOS calls). This would cause a problem where > if you (a) used fdisk to create the first partition on disk, and (b) > tried to boot of that partition, each time LILO booted, it would try to update > its map file, and this would modify the wrong block (since it was using > the bad cyl/track/sector address). > > The fix is to get a newer version of fdisk, and recreate the partition. > THis is, by the way, an old, old bug. It's disturbing that a '96 > Slackware distribution would still be shipping an fdisk program quite > that old, if this is really the same problem. > > - Ted
What is the latest version of fdisk? Where can I get it?
Thanks
Chai
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