Re: Hibarnation / lphdisk / Destroyed MBR (solved)
The last primary doubles as the home for the extended
partitions. If you use up all the primaries (four, I
think), you can't define any extended. You often see
systems with hda1, hda5, hda6... because of this.
Thanks, Micros~1/IBM.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:26:17AM +0100, mi wrote:
> I can't believe it... it works !
> :)))
>
> I went into cfdisk and cut the hibernation part hda1 into 2 pieces.
> That is, deleted it and put a 541 MB new hibernation at the end of the free
> space. Plus one little one (7 MB) in the beginning.
> Which is unfortunateley unusable now - i seem to have used up all primaries,
> and cfdisk won't offer me a logical there.
> Formatted new with lphdisk - and here it is !
> wow.
> And it's quite fast also :)
>
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>
> --
> micha.
>
>
> mi (Dienstag, 11. Februar 2003 06:37 ) :
> > Now i created a hibernation partition type A0 with lphdisk. Since i thought
> > of maximum speed writing on the outermost rim of disk, in the beginning had
> > provided a 549 MB hda1 for hibernation.
> > Yet with only 128 MB Ram installed.
> > I toggled 'save to disk' in the BIOS and later tried 'Fn Q' -
> > hurra, it works !
> > But when waking the machine up again, it says,
> > to get to work hibernation you have to reboot again or to insert the
> > original harddrive !? I guess it didn't found the hda1 ?
> > Rebooting didn't work, also. Fortunateley there was no linux-partition
> > destroyed, only the grub MBR had gone. I could chroot into the original
> > filesystem from an installer-ramdisk and reinstall it.
>
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