The last primary doubles as the home for the extended partitions. If you use up all the primaries (four, I think), you can't define any extended. You often see systems with hda1, hda5, hda6... because of this. Thanks, Micros~1/IBM.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:26:17AM +0100, mi wrote: > I can't believe it... it works ! > :))) > > I went into cfdisk and cut the hibernation part hda1 into 2 pieces. > That is, deleted it and put a 541 MB new hibernation at the end of the free > space. Plus one little one (7 MB) in the beginning. > Which is unfortunateley unusable now - i seem to have used up all primaries, > and cfdisk won't offer me a logical there. > Formatted new with lphdisk - and here it is ! > wow. > And it's quite fast also :) > > > > > -- > micha. > > > mi (Dienstag, 11. Februar 2003 06:37 ) : > > Now i created a hibernation partition type A0 with lphdisk. Since i thought > > of maximum speed writing on the outermost rim of disk, in the beginning had > > provided a 549 MB hda1 for hibernation. > > Yet with only 128 MB Ram installed. > > I toggled 'save to disk' in the BIOS and later tried 'Fn Q' - > > hurra, it works ! > > But when waking the machine up again, it says, > > to get to work hibernation you have to reboot again or to insert the > > original harddrive !? I guess it didn't found the hda1 ? > > Rebooting didn't work, also. Fortunateley there was no linux-partition > > destroyed, only the grub MBR had gone. I could chroot into the original > > filesystem from an installer-ramdisk and reinstall it. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
