eduardo reyes wrote:
>
> Thank you for your help... But I did have to reformat my hard drive. I
> tried what you said but it did not work, not because your idea did not work
> but because of mandrake. It seems that mandrake takes over all other
> partitions and adds them to each partition. for example.
> if you look at it through fdisk (windows) you would see
> c: fat32
> 1 non-dos
>
> but under cfdisk
> /dev/hda windows95
> /dev/hda2 windows95
> /dev/hda5 swap
> /dev/hda7 ext2
> /dev/hda8 ext2
>
> For some reason everything from hda2 down was compressed into the none dos.
> Go figure... But thank you. I'm very sure it has to do with the mandrake
> install.
>
hda5 and above show that it was creating one EXTENDED partition and
logical drives.I would guess the logical partition is type 85 -linux
extended that's why dos's fdisk can't see it.I think first partition
is /dev/hda1 not /dev/hda.If it's hda then something is really wrong
there
and you should file a bug report against mandrake.
unfortunatley cfdisk doesn't show all info ,as you see it won't list
the extended partition and the type of it that's why I recommended the
use of sfdisk -l which gives more info.you can do
sfdisk -l | tee disklayout.txt
which will both show you the partitions AND redirect the standardout
(what you see on the screen) to the file disklayout.txt
So the mandrake installer did the right thing with the linux partitions
What happened (my best guess here) is that it modified the partition
type for the second FAT(32) partition from logical to primary and
windows
have problems sometimes reading 2 primary partitions on the same drive.
Ugh..this looks like the Corel partitioning tool which used to/does
this kind of weirdo stuff with partitions.Most of these partitioning
tools are just clever(more or not) frontends to sfdisk anyway .
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