Ok, here's an even better script for printing all partitions. Just run it like 'showpart.pl /dev/hda'. Nebu John Mathai wrote: > Has anone got this error? > > On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition my 8.4Gig drive. The > first time I did it, I did not like the partition sizes (after writing the > partition info and initializing my root partition) and so rebooted the > machine (by going into the installation option to reboot the machine) to > do the install once more. However, this time, when I went to partition the > drive cfdisk stated "fatal error: ban primary partition". So I went to > fdisk and erased the partition info (fdisk seemed to work) and ran cfdisk > once more and all was fine. I installed debian and everything worked fine. > > Now, a few days later I went to install NT (unfortunately I have to run > some NT software for school), and NT disabled the "bootability" of Linux. > So I used a boot disk to get back to Linux, and tried running cfdisk to > get the partition with linux (the primary partition) bootable, but cfdisk > now complains: "Fatal error: bad primary partition". > > Any ideas on what this error means? Is my hard drive bad? I noticed that > cfdisk gives me cylinder/head/sector information on my drive that does not > matchmy hard drive specs ... should I use cfdisk to change that info? > > Thanks for any advice! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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