Re: No partition table
Sorry for the yet another HOWTO. I was lucky not to have such problems
and only remember that they were mentioned in various HOWTOs.
Anyway, I believe you will find interest in sections 7 (Translation and
Disk Managers) and 8 (Kernel disk translation for IDE disks) of the
Large-Disk-HOWTO.
> I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos.
> Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility
> called EZ-Drive, which is still active during boot. I have
> a syslog entry which reads:
> Partition check:
> hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1]
>
> Do I need to overwrite the first sector to restore
> the MBR? I can still boot from floppy, but I'm at
> a loss as to how to restore my hard drive so I can
> boot directly from it.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> > > I have a 30 GB Maxtor hard drive, with a 15 MB boot partition as
> > > the first partition. This is followed by root and swap.
> > >
> > > Apparently, I have somehow corrupted my partition table, because
> > > on boot I get the message NO PT, HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE
> > >
> > > When I do so, Lilo responds with LIL- and hangs. I can still boot
> > > from floppy, but only the older 2.2.X kernels.
> > >
> > > I have read the Large Disk How-To, but can't figure out what's
> > > wrong. Can anyone help?
> > >
> > > Thanks much,
> > > Russ
> > >
> >
> >
> > The Partition Rescue mini HOWTO sounds relevant. The Linux Partition
> > HOWTO, which is another mini HOWTO has a section about Recovering a
> > Deleted Partition Table.
> > Both are from the LDP.
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> > Shaul Karl
> > email: shaulka(at-no-spam)bezeqint.net
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