Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error. FIXED

2002-02-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On 21 Feb 2002, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > > So basically you ran partition magic, fixed the problem and now everything > > works fine? Great. I became curious, so could you please send me another > > fdisk -l an fdisk -l -u from your current situation? Let's see how it's > > solved. > > fdisk

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error. FIXED

2002-02-21 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 16:01, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On 20 Feb 2002, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > tried booting into win98 again and it worked. LILO was still giving me > > trouble when running it(NOT when booting) - something along the lines > > of, > > > > Device 0x0

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error. FIXED

2002-02-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:01:39PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > tried booting into win98 again and it worked. LILO was still giving me > > trouble when running it(NOT when booting) - something along the lines These stupid boundary issues arise only with Windoze. If you want to live with damb OSs,

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error. FIXED

2002-02-20 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On 20 Feb 2002, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > tried booting into win98 again and it worked. LILO was still giving me > trouble when running it(NOT when booting) - something along the lines > of, > > Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 1st entry > 3D address: 32/1/0 (9

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error. FIXED

2002-02-20 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi Sebastian, On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 20:52, Sebastiaan wrote: > But as I see, hda1 ends on block 2548269 and hda2 starts at 2538270. So > whatever you want to do, it will cause data loss. hda1 is as big as it can > be, so if you make it bigger you will erase a part of the linux partition > (the mo

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.

2002-02-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On 19 Feb 2002, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > > To verify, try: > > less -f /dev/sda1 (where sda1 is your windoze partition) > > If it displays something like: > It does display something very similar - I figure you are running a > different language from me though cos the text is mine is engli

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.

2002-02-19 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 17:37, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On 19 Feb 2002, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:34, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > > But still I do not see the problem. You have one harddisk on which win98, > > > winNT and Linux is installed. Are win98 and NT on the same

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.

2002-02-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On 19 Feb 2002, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:34, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > But still I do not see the problem. You have one harddisk on which win98, > > winNT and Linux is installed. Are win98 and NT on the same partition or on > > a different one? Which was first installed?

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.

2002-02-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:24:50PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > [...] > > Win98 is partition one. Linux is part two and NT was supposed to be > partition three. On trying to install - it screwed the partition table > up. Therefore, NT is not installed just now. > > I think the data is fine in P

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.

2002-02-19 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:34, Sebastiaan wrote: > But still I do not see the problem. You have one harddisk on which win98, > winNT and Linux is installed. Are win98 and NT on the same partition or on > a different one? Which was first installed? Is your win98 partition really > lost or have you ju

Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.

2002-02-19 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On 19 Feb 2002, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Hi All, > > I wonder if any of you can point me in the right direction here. STUPID > NT (I need it to do some work) destroyed my Windoze 98 (I need THIS to > play games) partition. > > Now fdisk says that Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundar

partition does not end on cylinder boundary error.

2002-02-19 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I wonder if any of you can point me in the right direction here. STUPID NT (I need it to do some work) destroyed my Windoze 98 (I need THIS to play games) partition. Now fdisk says that Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 24, 30) should be (1023, 254, 63)