Re: new hard drive install
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote:
>> > Yes it really says FAT 12
>
> ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my
Certainly not due to anything I did (on purpose, that is).
> very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's
> disk geometry settings. It was 9MB in size, which I'd guess might
> be too small for FAT16.) So it's picking up garbage.
>
> > fdisk -l
> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 Heads 63 Sectors 1027 Cylinders
> > Units =Cylinders of 16065*512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 1 64 51408+ 6 DOS 16 bit>=32M
> > /dev/hda2 * 65 65 192 1028160 83 Linux native
> > /dev/hda3 193 193 205 104422+ 82 Linux swap
> > Segmentation fault.
>
> Doesn't that raise the question as to how you partitioned the disk
> in the first place? Presumably that didn't segfault or you wouldn't
> have been able to write the partition table at all.
It was the same program-linux fdisk.
>
> Did you use a different program, in which case what does it say
> and does it agree with the above? Or did you use the same program
> in which case it's a bit worrying that a program can write a
> partition table which it itself can't then read.
It looks like I should repartition the disc and try again.
It just seemed so close to working.
And the error message is so clear.
Oh well.
Thanks again for the help.
Chuck Kaufman
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