My problem with all this is that as far as I know I DID NOT DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD WRITE TO OR CHANGE THE PARTITION TABLE - these messages just started appearing one day. This is the same partition table which has been working OK for both the windows boot partition and the Mandrake boot partition with no problems or complaints.. so why would it start complaining about this multiple times whenever I boot my system?
I WILL take a look at the partition table later this week to see if indeed there is a problem with it. Just weird that it would start doing this all of a sudden after loading assorted cooker updates. That's what prompted my initial question which started this thread. V. On Tuesday 14 January 2003 09:48 am, Pascal Cavy wrote: > I suspect diskdrake to have a bug in certain conditions. > > I have noticed several mdk installations where fdisk or cfdisk complains > about overlapping partitions, or partitions not ending on cylinder boundary > (for ex the first primary ending on 788 for exemple and the extented > partition starting at 788 too !). It was the case on MDK90, I dont know if > it's still true on MDK9.1B1 ? > > Pascal Cavy > > Le Mardi 14 Janvier 2003 15:35, Allan Mee a écrit : > > hmmm I wonder if you have got/had the same problem as me - Windoze > > reported an error in disk size reported and "fixed it" during a defrag > > session - then I got a message similar to yours (I can't remeber the > > exact message) and some utilities (including fips 2.0) said I had > > overlapping partitions - yet I had done an automatic install (I just > > fdisk x% for Windows and let Linux automatically take care of the > > remainder (120 GB - x%) space - so far I have been unable to reproduce > > the circumstances but I now view MS Scandisk and Defrag with more > > suspicion (and caution) than ever! Allan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: "J. Greenlees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that? > > >Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:33:20 -0800 > > > > > >Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >> Getting this message whenever I boot up the machine, multiple times at > > >>different stages of the boot: > > >> > > >>ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed. > > >> > > >>no idea why or what it means. What other info will help? > > > > > >only time I've seen disk read errors was when the drive was failing to > > >register with the bios. > > >or crashing ( ancient drive ) > > >if your partition table got damaged at all that could concievably cause > > >same error. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
