bascule....if, as you said in your previous message, mandrake
won't boot, then how is mandrake giving you partition info?
If you can get mandrake running then please post the output of
fdisk /dev/hda using the p command and fdisk /dev/sda using the
p command. Also post the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf.
If you deleted a partition on the ide drive and was hda1 then
hda2 is now the first partition on the drive and I'd guess that
you've probably moved it into the space vacated by sda1 when you
deleted it. This doesn't change what linux calls it.
Alan
bascule wrote:
>
> bascule here again, with yet another problem that is defeating me!
>
> the last version of linux that i tried before mandrake was redhat 6 just
> after it came out at that time my partitions were reported as being what
> i expected them be from my knowledge of the naming system
> i.e. ide drive
> first partition(primary)'win98 driveC' =hda1
> second partition(primary) 'free space'=hda2
> third partition (logical) 'win98 driveE'=hda5
> fouth partition (logical) 'win98 driveF'=hda6
> fifth partition (logical) /home =hda7
>
> with clearly the whole extended partition holding logical drives being
> hda4
>
> similarly the scsi drive
> first partition (primary) / =sda1
> second partition (primary) 'linux swap space' =sda2
> third partition (primary) 'win98 driveD' =sda3
> fourth partition (logical) 'win98 driveG' =sda5
> fifth partition (logical) 'win98 driveH' =sda6
> again the extended partition holding logical drives being sda4
>
> ....problem, according to mandrake my first ide partition is hda2!-there
> is NO free space before it,
> the free space after it is now hda3 and not hda2
> the first scsi partition is still sda1 but the second is now sda3! there
> is NO free space between the two, the third primary partition is now
> sda4 and all the others one number up,
>
> i have checked these drives for problems over and over again as well as
> for viruses boot sector and other wise,
> does anyone know of any thing that could cause this to happen and what
> it may mean?
> apart from user permision problems relating to writing to dos partitions
> (or should that be vfat?) posted elsewhere i have no problems accessing
> these drives
>
> bascule
