"David C. Hoos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From: "John Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:06 AM
> Subject: RE: [expert] Unknown partiton table
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> > You are using fdisk from Windoze/Dos?!?! Why?
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> Because:
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> 1. With a brand new disk, fdisk from LM7.1 would segfault.
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> 2. Someone on this list suggested it.
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> 3. The tactic worked
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> What I did was use a Win98 startup disk to boot the machine.
> Then, using FDISK from that startup disk, I created one primary
> partition, encompassing the whole disk.
>
> Then, rebooting from the first hard drive (SCSI) I was able then to
> use fdisk from LM7.1 to delete the partition from /dev/hdc and create
> Linux ext2 partitions the way I wanted them.
Well, that implies that my dd trick should have worked also.
If anyone else has that problem I'd be really curious if
'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd<x> count=1 ibs=512'
makes it work (obviously, you have to try this instead of using dos fdisk ;-)
BEWARE - be SURE you get that <x> right or you just creamed
the MBR of that other drive!
rc
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