Re: I give up on x86-64, its too busted.



On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
I just did that, checked it with a p, then w rote it. Got this message:
Warning: re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or
resource busy. Then I ctl-d'd the shell and let it reboot. It booted
to windows, I rebooted, hit esc, that screen looked like the normal
bios screen for selection, with neither hda1 nor hda2, just hda being
the choices. I rebooted to the rescue cd, and re-ran fdisk & found
that flag was off again. I've set it again, but when I w the changes,
the above error is output.

You weren't trying to change the parameters of a *mounted* drive were
you?

When you boot into a rescue mode, you've got choices whether or not to
mount a drive. Don't mount a drive you want to play with fdisk on.

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