]Hi,
I have posted about a problem with mkswap on extended partitions. This is
a different problem on the same machine, but using a diffrerent hard
drive.
I have a 27GB IDE drive which is partitioned thusly:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3322 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 38 305203+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 39 293 2048287+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 430 3322 23237991 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 481 3027 20458746 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 430 480 409626 82 Linux swap
fdisk has no problems with it and I don't think that disk druid does
either but I'm not absolutely certain. Mandrake 7.0, 7.1beta1, and
7.1beta2 all take one look at it and say that the "partition table is too
corrupted for me' and then says that it will start deleteing bad
partitions. What I end up with is all partitions shown as unallocated.
If I click on the option to try to recover partition table (this is all
from memory so my terminology may not be exact. Sorry.) I just sits and
the drive "click click, click click's forever. Any ideas on this? I'd
like to install on this disk.
Disk is set for LBA and is a UDMA66 running on a UDMA33 controller.
Motherboard is VIA based with a K63-400 and 128MB. This is the only disk
on the system.
-Steve
