I did a trial on a smaller hard disk. Installed knoppix on it,
rebooted from the hdd to test it. Rebooted again from the Live CD and
(after taking down the Linux partition info) deleted the partitions
and created just one partition, and changed the type to bf (Solaris) -- the same thing which happened with the other hard disk.
Now I tried booting off the hard disk just to check and it booted without problems. Strange because when I check with fdisk, this is what I see:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdc
Disk /dev/hdc: 3227 MB, 3227148288 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 392 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 392 3148708+ bf Unknown
There was one Linx partition and a Swap partition which I deleted.
Can someone explain this behavior? If this hard disk boots alright then why doesn't the other hard drive boot when the same thing (accidentally) happened to it?
Regards, Deboo
The most obvious explanation is that the swap partition on your other drive started at the first cylinder, but life is usually not that simple.
Beyond that is guesswork, but in your first post you mentioned something about having two drives when you thought only one was installed. You may still not understand some problem in your original coinfiguration, making adequate duplication of the original problem difficult at best.
It's not clear what you are trying to accomplish. In another post you claim to have the necessary partition table parameters to fix your problem.
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