Re: corrupted partition table
Subject: corrupted partition table
Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0400
In reply to:Benjamin Black
Quoting Benjamin Black(bhb8@columbia.edu):
> hi everyone.
>
> a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i
> installed the new kernel-image-2.4.3-686 that was uploaded a few days
> ago into my boot sector, and lilo did not complain; i am now running
> that image. today, i was trying to set up my cd writer, so i added
> append="hdd=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf, but now when i run lilo, i got this:
>
> Warning: current root is not on the first disk
> Device 0x0340: Invalid partition table, 2nd entry
> 3D address: 1/0/128 (129024)
> Linear address: 1/0/2040 (2056320)
>
> so i ran fdisk on my two drives, and this is what i see:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19590 cylinders
>
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
/----<snip>-- fdisk output --\
I upgraded from Debian packaged 2.4.2 kernel/headers to a kernel.org 2.4.3 and
now a 2.4.4 kernel. Due to space limitations, I removed the deb
kernel/header packages when I went to 2.4.3 because the deb package
wasn't available at the time.
I have not seen any problems such as you describe. In fact, I find
both 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 to be quite stable. This is on 2 potato systems,
K6-200 and Athalon-1Ghz.
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
> i've done nothing to my partition tables, and like i said, lilo
> installed the 2.4.3 kernel image just fine, so this clearly wasn't a
> problem a few days ago. this problem just seems to have appeared out of
> nowhere. luckily i can still boot, but if my partition table ever gets
> overwritten by Windows (i have had experiences with Windows doing that
> for no reason), i won't be able to reinstall LILO.
>
> is there a way to get either fdisk or lilo to fix this problem? by fix
> i mean correct so that i can still boot and access my files.
>
> /ben
>
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