Re: cannot unhide vfat after upgrade to testing

[Karl Landsteiner <Karl.Landsteiner@gmx.de>]

Branko Subasic <branko <at> subasic.net> writes:

> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I had the same problem a while ago.
> Apparently, this was caused by a feature introduced in
> lilo 21.6 (or so). Still haven't found out what feature, though.
> Anyway, the solution that worked for me is to include the
> following lines in /etc/lilo.conf:
> 
>    # Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table: 
>    change-rules
>    reset
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
> /Branko
> 

Hi Branko,

thanks for your help. 
I indicate the partition explicitely now
in lilo.conf. the relevant part is:

other=/dev/hda1
  label="WinXP(hda1)"
  change
  partition=/dev/hda1
  activate
  set=NTFS_normal

  partition=/dev/hda2
  deactivate
  set=FAT32_lba_normal

this seems to work fine.