Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 07:18, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning
> as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller
> partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its
> size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not
> write it down and can't remember, but I think this size - just under
> a gig - is what I made the HURD partition long ago.
>
> So the partition table is correct; however, when the OS actually is
> up and running, the kernel somehow is confused, and acts as if it
> still has the OLD partition table. (It's not the geometry at all
> like I originally thought.) What could cause this behavior?
I had a similar problem once (some time ago, don't know the system specs
anymore). After some fdisk orgies, linux seemed to lose partition
numbers. So I ended up with an extended partition that containded
something like partitions 5,8,11 or something. The /dev/sdXY's were
numered correctly, though. The only way I was able to fix this was to
start from scratch.
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