Marc Audard wrote: >Hi, > >I have Mandrake 8.2 installed in dual boot with WIN ME, and everything >works fine. When I tried to install RedHat, I got a message saying the >partition table was unreadable, that I had to reinitialize, with a >subsequent loss of all data. > >It turns out that my partition table looks like this: > >Partition Table for /dev/hda > > First Last > # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags >-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- --------- > 3 Primary 0 433754 63 433755 Linux (83) None (00) > 1 Primary 433755 9622934 0 9189180 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (0C) Boot (80) > 2 Primary 9622935 39070079 0 29447145 Extended (05) None (00) > 5 Logical 9622935 11181239 63 1558305 Linux swap (82) None (00) > 4 Primary 11181240 11984489 0 803250 Linux (83) None (00) > 6 Logical 11984490 20161574 63 8177085 Linux (83) None (00) > 7 Logical 20161575 39070079 63 18908505 Linux (83) None (00) > > >So the extended hda2 partition (which actually I was never able to see during >the installation of Mandrake 8.0 or 8.2) encompasses the Linux ext2 partitions >hda3-hda7. > >Why is Mandrake able to work on such a partition table? > >What I did: > >a) reduce the Win partition >b) create manually (using the diskdrake tool at the installation step) partitions >c) and that was all! > >Tx > >Marc > >PS: CC me in your replies! > > I hope you don't mind me not being able to answer your question, but I'm curious what is going on here. Question: Where did you read this table, in linux fdisk ? , Dos fdisk ? Partition Magic ? I note according to this table you have 4 Primary and 3 logical partitions.Nothing wrong in that, but I have always gone 1 Primary, 1Extended, divided into any number of logicals, and I just wonder whether this may have a bearing upon your question. When you first made your partitions for W Me , it must of been after creating some of these partitions because , you have a linux partition as your hda1. nothing wrong with that , but again I'm curious here. I'm less than sure what you are installing. You have Windblows Me, Linux 8.0 and Linux8.2, and so you are tripple booting already, and you would like to overwrite presumeably M8.0 with Redhat(V ?). I'm interested to install Redhat myself sometime, and so I am curious as to how you get on. I like to do all my partitioning with just one tool, currently for me that is Partition Magic V7 , that is only because of some limitations of diskdrake which is fine otherwise. I'm purely guessing but my first thoughts are that RH doesn't like, for some reason, your partition table and wants you to reorder it somehow. Is hda1 ( 3 primary) your /boot partition ?
Sorry I don't know the easy answer to your question . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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