Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Michael Iles wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to install Debian Linux 1.2 and things were going well until I got to the 'partition hard drive' part. The _first_ time I picked this choice I editted my partition information to include a Linux and a Linux Swap partition. When I tried to save these changes, though, I got a message saying
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> FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive
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> Every subsequent time I try to start cfdisk, I immediately get the same message about not being able to seek, so now I can't even see the partition information.
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> I can run DOS fdisk and make changes to the partition information, and my pre-existing partitions (Win95 and WinNT) still function normally. I tried giving cfdisk the disk geometry information on the command-line, but it still gave me the error.
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> I have only one physical drive, a 3.8 gig Quantum Fireball that Linux correctly detects. (At least I think it does; I can see its name go by in all the hardware information that Linux prints while starting.) If I switch to a different console, though, I can't see anything on the drive (there's nothing in the /target directory). It did read the partition information _once_ though, so I assume it can see the drive.
Have you tried running Linux fdisk, rather than cfdisk? I had some
problems with cfdisk, but fdisk worked flawlessly.
Bob
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