On Sun, 15 May 2005, Deboo ^ wrote:
> Well, I just wanted to do a trial run of what I was to do on the drive > in question so I installed knoppix on this smaller drive, booted it to > test it is working, then booting off the knoppix CD again, I deleted > the partitions (the same thing that accidentally happened on the drive > in question). deleting the partition table after its been formatted still leaves the file system intact and functional if you have an alternative way ( knoppix ) to go looking at it how knoppix is finding the partition boundries is a separate issue, but my guess is, it's probably is looking at 0x448 - 0x512 and its corresponding entended partition definitions to recreate the "missing partition entries" > I created a single solaris partition and rebooted to > test the smaller hdd. But even after doing this twice, it still boots > without any problem booting the smaller disk should always work if you are using /dev/hda1 and no other partitions ( /tmp, /usr, /var, /opt, /home, (optional) /boot, ... ) > and right now I'm accessng the list thru the hdd > knoppx install which should not work (theoretically). it will(might) work ... knoppix does lots of [sanity] checking ... - and you;re saying it is booting off a disk that does NOT have any defined partitions, which was deleted after you had installed linux on it you're saying: "fdisk -l /dev/hda" is empty than there is no partitions defined, but i think there it could still work if the MBR is intact and the formated fs c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]