Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, I'll answer my own question: > > > (And how many kinds of incompatible partition table are there?) > > The answer is quite a lot. See check_partition() in > linux/drivers/block/genhd.c for a list of the ones that Linux can > understand.
> I managed to convert my previous partition table (I don't know what > type it was) to a Sun partition table while preserving the ext2 file > system in /dev/sda2; /dev/sda1 got trashed, but that was only swap, > fortunately. In general you can't always convert a partition table from > one type to another because the different types have different rules > about where a partition may begin. And there are all sorts of problems > with changing geometries ... You can't have swap as the first partition on the disk. The boot loader and the swap overwrite each other. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
