On Friday 09 August 2002 08:59 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Hi, > > This is a prob which left me without any idea. AND it keeps me away > from the shiny new 9.0 Beta! > > PC w/ 80G harddisk. > > cfdisk says (edited output): > > hda1 prim VFAT 8,3 GB WinME (C:) > hda5 log VFAT 12,5 GB WinME (D:) > log free 0,04 GB > hda6 log Linux swap 0,5 GB > hda7 log Linux Reiser 6,6 GB MDK8.2 (/) > hda8 log Linux Reiser 11,4 GB MDK8.2 (/home) > > Rest of the harddisk is unused. > > That was my starting point. Now I tried to install OpenBSD behind that > hda8. I installed it but made a mistake by forgetting the bootloader! > SO I let it be, promising myself to read some more docu about BSD > filesystems. > > I wanted to delete the BSD partition and fired up fdisk in MDK 8.2: > > ------------------------------------------------ > # fdisk /dev/hda > Warning: too many partitions (16, maximum is 8). > > Command: p > > 16 partitions: > # start end size fstype fsize bsize cpg > a: 114527* 130780 16253 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > c: 1 159560 159560 unused 0 0 > ------------------------------------------------- > > I guess that's the output BSD-style. See the difference to the cfdisk > output? But what does it say? I know I made the BSD partition 16GB so > this must be 'a:'. And 'c:' must be hda1 - hda8 with Windows and Linux. > > I did not dare to remove anything because I did not trust this. So I > put in my CD1 (9.0Beta2) and booted. I came to Diskdrake and it just > showed the Windows and MDK8.2 partitions, the rest was white territory. > > So I created my partitions for 9.0 (hda9/10/11) and put the bootloader > in BR of hda9. Formatting and installation went without any probs > (smooth Beta.install, BTW). > > I rebooted into MDK 8.2 and edited lilo.conf so I have another item in > the boot menue (added other=/dev/hda9, label=90, table=/dev/hda). But > when I started lilo I got an error: > > "Fatal: Partition not found." > > I started cfdisk and got the same output as above plus the 3 new > partitions. Everything looks allright. I start fdisk /dev/hda and get > the same weird output as above, whining about the 16 partitions. > > So lilo looks at the partition table like fdisk does. But why do I get > a different output in cfdisk and why do I get a different output in > Diskdrake during installation? > > Of course I did not make a boot disk for 9.0 because I can always boot > into rescue with CD1 ... or so I thought. > > I tried that and at the nice screen I punched F1 to get to the boot > prompt to enter 'rescue' but all I see is a nice lightblue screen with > nothing on it. So maybe rescue mode is not implemented yet in the Beta.
Disclaimer! _I am a newbie!_ Aside from that fact; I also got the pretty blue screen every time I tried the F1 but at the screen that gives you that option (angry and frustrated and ham fisted mistake) I accidentally hit the 3 and enter on the numeric keypad in nearly simultaneous fashion and got: unknown command and a boot: prompt where I was able to type rescue and commence to proceed. I have no idea why, and as stated I'm a lowly newb. But I hope it helps if it works for you too. I guess serendipity is really just happy accidents with a good outcome. > > > Final: I am lost. I posted this to the newsgroup (aolm) but did not get > any advice. So this is my last hope before I have to wipe my complete > harddisk to get the lost space back. > > > wobo But I did make a boot disk. :-) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Kafka's Law: In the fight between you and the world, back the world. -- Franz Kafka, "RS's 1974 Expectation of Days"
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