Re: Bad signature on partition table

[Johann Spies <jspies@maties.sun.ac.za>]

I have used parted with success in a situation where I got the same
error message from cfdisk.

Maybe it can help here also.


> 
> c. cfdisk hda gives the error message 'Fatal Error:
>    Bad Signature on partition table - press any key 
>    etc. to leave'
>    fdisk hda gives no message - just locks Potato
>    completely. If I try to re-login (as opposed to
>    reboot), the message 'hda: lost interrupt' keeps
>    recurring.




Johann
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