Well...maybe I am being a bit Mule-ish about all this, but here's another
reason why I "need" to know what happening and how to fix it manually.
"If" I can get PM to read the disks from Windows, OR from DOS there is the
risk that once the partitions problem is fixed things will have changed
"inside" those partitions and the kernel no longer sees things as its
expecting to find them, panics, and subsequently refuses to boot at all.
New problem...partitions no longer overlapping, but kernel has no idea
where the boot info is cause it's not where it was the last time it was
read into memory.
This has happened to me in the past and because of this I'm extremely
hesitant to use partition magic, or for that matter diskdrake.
Very like what is going to happen is that since the "data" on these
partitions is backed up on another disk already I may find myself
reinstalling just to get this situation resolved should it become too much
of a problem for the OS to handle. Still, I'm at the same place, at least
for now, I need to know "how" to fix this the hard way so that I can take
care of it. I have a feeling that this isn't the last time that I'll see
it.
Mark
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:09:21 +1100
> From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand...diskdrake doesn't complain, nor crash, nor bail with
> > an init error that is so non descript that it's error means next to
> > nothing usable at all to the user. Bah...hum bug! I don't often spend this
> > much time bashing and bitching about Windows stuff cause this just ain't
> > the place for it. And neither is falling back to a real dumb program
> > "hoping" that it's doing the job correctly and fixing the real problem.
> >
> > All that being said...as I stated before PM is not the answer for this
> > situation.
>
> In common with many others, DiskDrake is NOT mature enough to be
> relied upon, period. Where did all your overlapping partitions
> come from, might I ask? DiskDrake? Others have reported this
> in these mailing lists. Pay attention. Failing that, look at
> http://deja.com
>
> You have PM, but don't seem to be aware that the Windows PM or the PM
> CD both give you the option to generate a pair of floppies. These
> boot DOS, have a DOS-based GUI and contain all the PM functionality
> except those crazy wizards. It is these you should use for Linux
> operations, not Windows.
>
> It seems you want to learn the hard way. That is one of your
> options. Wisdom does not come cheap.
> You will eventually concede I have given you a valuable lesson.
>
>
