me said > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a > dos disk. > Huh. Fdisk should be able to read the device regardless of what filesystem types are on it. As far as I know all i386 systems build and use the same partition table formats. Something else mst be up!
> > try cd'ing to the directory where /dev/hda3 is mounted and > > chroot . bash > > > > this SHOULD give you a shell that can run those binaries. > > (and its bash too ;)) > > thanks, yes, this works, and i can run cfdisk fine. cfdisk works fine. I > didn't change anything, but i tried to write the partition table, and > here's the error cfdisk gives: > > "Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot to update table." > Have you then rebooted to see if the write took place? > This was what it gave me originally when this whole mess started. > > > have you tried fsck? > > e2fsck on my ext2 drives (/dev/hda3 et al) works fine. e2fsck on /dev/hda1 > of course doesn't work, because it's a non-ext2 partition. e2fsck on > /dev/hda returns "Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda." > <what's this superblock thing? I'm not up on the technical details of > FATs.> > Right. /dev/hda represents the *entire* drive - /dev/hdax (where x is 1-?) represents the various partitions. Avoid using fsck/mkfs on /dev/hda. > fsck.msdos on /dev/hda returns: > Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 243. > > fsck.msdos on /dev/hda1 returns: > Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 81. > > Hmm. Why does it think I have 81 FATs on one partition? > > > As for the Win95 system... > > you will probablky need to re-install > That goes without saying, doesn't it!? Everytime I've heard anyone talk about fixing a win95 issue it always seems to start with "First re-install the OS..." > yep, i figured so. but right now I can't even get a Win95 boot floppy to > recognize my C drive (aka /dev/hda1). <sigh> > Could fips help me with that problem? > Remember, Microsoft fdisk's tend to change partion numbers around - what was once /dev/hda2 could now be /dev/hda1 and vise-versa. I recommend creating any MSDOS/Win9x partitions on the drive first using MS's fdisk and then using Linux's fdisk/cfdisk to create the others. (after a re-boot of course...) > Thanks so much. I feel kinda stupid for not having taken appropriate > precautions, but i guess i'm learning the hard way... <sigh> > Many of us (myself included) have learned the same lesson the same way. The secret is to do this only once. :) > -Renee Landrum > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (main) ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (forwarding) > > Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Practical Network Design Voice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX: +1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
