RE: Hamm installation problems (fdisk bug)
You're right. I used Win95's OSR2 fdisk tool. Now since my last message I
have found a tool, partinfo, which is made by Power Quest,
the guys that do Partition Magic. When I ran this tool on my partition
table it told me this:
C:WIN95 FAT16B Pri,Boot 509.8 0 0 63 1044162
ExtendedX Pri 8197.2 0 1 1044225 16787925
And on their Web site they talk about "ExtendedX", "Fat16X", "Fat32X"
partition types as being partitions that can go past the 8GB limit. I think
this is a Microsoft invention to denote partitions for which the CHS
information should be ignored and the LBA used instead. But because this
give different partition system ids Linux fdisk no longer recognises them
as extended/fat16/fat32 partitions.
The problem if I use old Dos's fdisk is that Win95 will believe that my
extended partition only goes to cylinder 1023 when it goes up to 1109. I
think I'll scrap what is on my hard disk for now (I'll have fun
reinstalling it later) and install Linux. Unless someone knows of a version
of fdisk that would support these new partition types.
Anyone interested in this problem should probably have a look at the
following Web pages:
http://www.powerquest.com/downlwd/part.html -> to download partinfo
http://www.powerquest.com/support/commoncalls.html -> look for "Drives >
8gbs"
winioctl.h -> in this file I found the following lines:
#define PARTITION_FAT32 0x0B // FAT32
#define PARTITION_FAT32_XINT13 0x0C // FAT32 using extended
int13 services
#define PARTITION_XINT13 0x0E // Win95 partition using
extended int13 services
#define PARTITION_XINT13_EXTENDED 0x0F // Same as type 5 but
uses extended int13 services
Francois
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