Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Also, DOS reports that D: (the dos partition on the second drive)
> as being 1.2Gigs -- that is how big the whole drive is. DOS
> doesn't see the Linux partitions there at all. I know they are there,
> I am running them right now as I type this!
Perhaps you have fallen foul of the fact that DOS is broken w.r.t.
partitions. Specifically, DOS reads information /inside/ the partition
about its configuration instead of believing the partition table.
If you create a DOS partition (not using DOS's FDISK, which takes care of
matters), you have to zero out a small section of it so that DOS will be
forced to use the partition table info.
Unfortunately, I'm typing this away from the documentation which expounds
all this. I think it's somewhere in the LILO documentation, but can't be
sure.
Take care!
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David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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