[rl-users] R/L hosed my partition Table!

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Okay, here's the long and short of it.... First, I changed the BIOS
setting for the hard drive from "INT 18 Device (Network)" to
"SCSI/Onboard ATA". No change, and the Win's still worked fine. Then I
switched the controller from the Promise ATA100 to the regular IDE
(again). This time, Redmond Linux DID see the drive! Hooray! When it
came to the part of where to put Linux, I told it to use the 6 GB
unpartitioned space I had previously cleared out with Partition Magic.
It formatted the partitions, and installed the packages, while prompting
me for user names, passwords, modem & printer types, etc. Then it went
to load itself back up, and got "Starting LIZARD.......FAIL". Tried
again, booting off the CD, same thing. Took the CD out, and went to boot
back to Windows - Ivalid Patition Table!!! ARRGGGHHH!!! Booted from a
Win emergency disk, and DOS was seeing the 3 Windows drives okay. Ran
Patition Magic from their emergency disk, the partitions listed now
were: "1.> BAD"  AARRRGGGHHH!!! Thought I was fried! So I ran FDISK, and
deleted the Linux partitions R/L had created. Booted back up to Win98/2k
as if nothing had happened, except W2k doing a hardware adjustment.

I think my next plan of attack is going to be creating the Linux
partitions with Partition Magic, installing Boot Magic to multiboot the
3 OS's, trying out both Windows, to make sure they're still working, and
then installing R/L, and pointing it to the Linux partitions I created
with PM... Who knows, maybe it will work... :o)