i am sure most of us have been told to back up their partition tables - now we know why
sanity requires that you grab all the data you can before proceeding after that you may be able to fix the existing table without formatting you may need to supply the correct geometry, disk drives lie about that routinely jim tarvid On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:40 am, antonio rodriguez wrote: > Dear All, > > I've downloaded and run gpart, but I'm not getting the results I > expected. By the moment lilo works. I've enterede in rescue mode with > cd1. So I'm able to work in rescue mode, but gpart gives to me: > > *Waarning partition (Extended DOS, LBA) ends beyond disk end,. > Number of inconsistencies found: 1 > > Guessed primary parttion table: > Primary partition(1): > DOS or Windows > > Primary partition(2): > Extended DOS > > Primary partition(unused): > > Primary partition(unused): > > So what's the following? > > Cheers, > > Antonio > > > go to freshmeat grab gparted put it on a floppy and let it try and > > "rediscover" your partitions again. Then replace your winME with 2000 > > *grin*...... > > > > James > > > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:46, antonio rodriguez wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I have Mandrake Linux 8.1 installed on a Duron sharing the hard disk > > > with WinMe. After defrag WinMe I found that I couldn't boot Linux > > > because of a kernel panic. Entering in rescue mode I've ran fdisk so > > my > > > > new partition table has only two sections: > > > > > > /dev/hda1/ Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > > > /dev/hda2/ Extended > > > > > > How do I could fix this problem in order to have my old 3 partitions > > (W, > > > > Linux and Linux swap)? > > > > > > Any hints appreciated > > > > > > THanks in advance > > > > > > Antonio Rodriguez > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > > Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/03 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/03
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