On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote:
>> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my Certainly not due to anything I did (on purpose, that is). > very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's > disk geometry settings. It was 9MB in size, which I'd guess might > be too small for FAT16.) So it's picking up garbage. > > > fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 Heads 63 Sectors 1027 Cylinders > > Units =Cylinders of 16065*512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 1 64 51408+ 6 DOS 16 bit>=32M > > /dev/hda2 * 65 65 192 1028160 83 Linux native > > /dev/hda3 193 193 205 104422+ 82 Linux swap > > Segmentation fault. > > Doesn't that raise the question as to how you partitioned the disk > in the first place? Presumably that didn't segfault or you wouldn't > have been able to write the partition table at all. It was the same program-linux fdisk. > > Did you use a different program, in which case what does it say > and does it agree with the above? Or did you use the same program > in which case it's a bit worrying that a program can write a > partition table which it itself can't then read. It looks like I should repartition the disc and try again. It just seemed so close to working. And the error message is so clear. Oh well. Thanks again for the help. Chuck Kaufman
