On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 02:13:33PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> Since your hda1 appears to be set to 81, (Linux/MINIX) I would worry.
> Maybe changing it back? I dunno... Just looks that way to me.
The partition type doesn't actually matter, I have an ext2fs partition
marked BSD/i386. I nuked m
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:36:39PM +, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
> Btw.: does anyone know why the re-read fails? AFAIR, this used to work
> fine on my SlackWare system some eons ago, but invariably fails on my
> Debian system--seemingly independant of the kernel version used.
Same experience
Michael Beattie said
> On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
>
> I would agree here, every time I see 81, 82 and 83, I instantly associate
> them with linux/minix Partition ID's.
>
> Since your hda1 appears to be set to 81, (Linux/MINIX) I would worry.
> Maybe changing it back? I dunno... J
On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
> > fsck.msdos on /dev/hda1 returns:
> > Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 81.
> >
> > Hmm. Why does it think I have 81 FATs on one partition?
>
> It seems that the file system on /dev/hda1 is hosed :-(
>
I would agree here, every time I see
me wrote:
> On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
>
> scsi: 0 hosts.
> scsi: detected total.[this is usual when it's working.]
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
> [MS-DOS FS Ren 12, FAT 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap]
> [me=0x52, cs=0, #f=81, fs=0, fl=48
me said
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > me said
> > > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> > >
> > > and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a
> > > dos disk.
> > >
> > Huh. Fdisk should be able to read the device regardless of
On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
> me wrote:
>
> > thanks, yes, this works, and i can run cfdisk fine. cfdisk works fine. I
> > didn't change anything, but i tried to write the partition table, and
> > here's the error cfdisk gives:
> >
> > "Wrote partition table, but re-read table fa
me wrote:
> and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a
> dos disk.
Yes, you use fdisk on the whole-disk devices such as /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
while you put file systems on the partition devices such as /dev/hda1 and
/dev/hda3.
> thanks, yes, this works, and i can r
me said
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
>
> and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a
> dos disk.
>
Huh. Fdisk should be able to read the device regardless of what filesystem
types are on it. As far as I know all i386 systems build and use the
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> NEVER play with the partitions on a system without making a
> backup!
yep, i know.
> Have you tried looking at it in normal fdisk?
fdisk /dev/hda will show me the partition table clearly. no probs there.
if i try to write & exit, it gives me
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:07:14AM -0400, me wrote:
> Hi all---
>
> I'm new to Linux, and in the process of hacking cluelessly with my
> hard-drive setup I've managed to trash some vital part of my hard drive.
> Here's the general setup:
>
> /dev/hda1 (~100MB) Win95, formerly bootable, formerl
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