Well... actually, the dd "trick" didn't work. I tried it, and
it showed one record in and one record out, but linux
fdisk still segfaulted.
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From: "Rusty Carruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [expert] Unknown partiton table
> "David C. Hoos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
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> > From: "John Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > 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?
> > >
> > Because:
> >
> > 1. With a brand new disk, fdisk from LM7.1 would segfault.
> >
> > 2. Someone on this list suggested it.
> >
> > 3. The tactic worked
> >
> > 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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