Pixel wrote:
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> Hal Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on
> > my IDE drives (primary and secondary)
>
> what is the error? looks like a hardware/kernel pb to me
In the installer, it says something about being unable to read the
partition tables. In Diskdrake from Linux, I get no error message. The
drives still appear in diskdrake, but the partition table is just blank
white unpartitioned space. Clicking rescue partition table will bring
back the real partitions.
I see the same symptoms when running diskdrake within Linux (not the
installler). diskdrake can't see the ide partition tables, but fdisk
sees them with no problem. Mandrake is also installed and running off
of these "invisible" partitions, so I don't think it's a hardware or
kernel problem.
I also experienced a much nastier problem with this bug, when clicking
on the "rescue partition table" on a drive where I had an ext2 file
system not related to the install, and consented to a write of the
partition table (cancel wouldn't let me avoid it) I somehow lost all of
the data on that partition (oh the pain!). dd if=/dev/hdb5 now reports
a lot of nulls which was previously my data. I'm not sure if this is a
result of me telling it not to format that mount in the install, and it
ignoring me, or whether diskdrake does something when it writes a
partition table. I believe it is the latter because the format would
imply that it it created an ext2 filesystem, which is not there.
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