Dawid Michalczyk wrote:
> I have 2 harddrives and run Linux(RH5.1), NT, and W98 on my computer.Since I
> need more space for Linux, I want to devote one of the FAT16 partitions on hda
> to Linux.The problem(I think) is that the partition which I want to devote to
> Linux is anextended one, and the Linux fdisk tool can't see the logical drives
> of the extended partitions.I get the following printout when using fdisk(under
> Linux):
>
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1 246 1975963+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda2 247 247 1229 7895947+ f Unknown
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1228, 254, 63)
Which version of fdisk are you using? The one from util-linux-2.8b
understands that type 0x0f is `Win95 extended'. You should probably
try using that.
Alternatively, you could try changing the type of /dev/hda2 to 0x05,
although I'm not offering any warranty with this advice ;).
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