Dear Kaa:
Thanks for the suggestions.
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com wrote:
Yes, but given that the kernel believes there is FAT12 partition, it seems
that there is something wrong with the partition table or at least the
reading thereof.
Is the low-level
From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works.
But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that
for DOS before there was IDE, but thought it wasn't needed anymore.
Thanks for all the information.
Chuck Kaufman
On 30-Jun-1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works.
But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that
for DOS before there was IDE, but
I'm not an expert but it was my understanding a low-level format was
only done at the
factory as it required special equipment, and that a new hard drive was
less
expensive. Also I thought LILO had a backup utility for the MBR. Dean
Low-level format is *not* needed any more -- that is, as
From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the hint. Of course I don't know whether it's a BIOS disk
geometry problem. In fact fdisk says the disk has 1027 cylinders.
^^
But it reports hda1 (dos) is 1 to 64, hda2 (linux) is 65 to
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