Greetings there... just yesterday(4-2-05), i flashed my bios thru intels site and was happy & sad to see the results...
the fdisk/sfdisk commands showed LBA on my extended partitions( i don know why it aint showing it on the primary). sadly the output remains as-is... i still get the mis-matched output from fdisk/sfdisk. also i removed(wiped) all partitions and fdisked and formated FAT32 all over again.. first i tried to do it with cfdisk(KNOPPIX), and created fat32 partitions. it did happen quickly. after writing to that partition table and exiting, it gave a warning for DOS 6.X partitions that win wants first 512 bytes of every partition to be empty..(man cfdisk) so i did dd if-/dev/zero of=/dev/hda* bs=512 count=1 * for 1,2,5,6,7,8 one at a time with successful changes. /dev/hda2 being an extended win partition(type 5) i had to redo the partitioning thru cfdisk. first i did not 'dd' the /dev/hda2(extended partition) and the doing 'dd' onto /dev/hda2(extended partition) and seeing the effects. (please correct me here as i 'dd' all win partitions ie primary,logical and then primary/extended/logical.) when i put on windows, only the primary partitoin(/dev/hda1) was visible, the /dev/hda5 was not accesible! in both the cases, ie 'dd' /dev/hda2 and not doing 'dd' on /dev/hda2. so i had to fdisk/format thru windows. later when i popped in a live cd, i get the size of the partitions under 800 bytes(eigth hundred bytes) please see this for newer results. http://www.geocities.com/rohitsz2/partition.html so one of my problems is solved .. the LBA mode, now how do i make linux see original size of my partitions? thanks, rohit. ===== NAMASTE, i honour the spirit in you which is also in me. ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````` http://www.geocities.com/rohitsz2 |Anytime you feel i need to understand| |a concept before i am eligible to get| |an answer i would be happy to know. | ^*************************************^ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
