On Tuesday 13 July 2004 03:50 am, Luke Kearney wrote:
> /dev/hda1 win2k
> /dev/hda2 FBSD
> /dev/hda3 <---- where i am hoping to install deb.
>
> So I my difficulty is simply that I don't seem to be able to correctly
> write the partition info to disk. I get an error saying that the
> information was written but could not be re-read and to reboot. From
> there of course I cannot initialize any partitions.
How adventuresome are you feeling? Is this data backed up?
I think I would try making a hard copy of what the partition table looks like
now
sfdisk -d /dev/hda
Then I'd try zeroing out the existing partition table with dd. I'm not quite
sure how many bytes you have to zero out to get rid of it without hosing
anything else, so you'd have to google it up, or I can get back to you.
After you hit the partition table with a neutron bomb, create a new, empty
table with fdisk, then write it out (empty) and use sfdisk and the hardcopy
you made to put your old partitions back. If the issue manifests itself
again after that, you have real problems.
Of course this procedure is only for people so adventuresome they're bordering
on insane, and I'm not quite sure I could pull it off again myself. I did it
once, and it worked, but there's quite a lot of risk involved here. I was
younger then. :)
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