Re: Disk corruption with vfat?

From: Gerhard W. Gruber (sparhawk_at_gmx.at)
Date: 11/23/04


Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:30:48 +0100

On 23 Nov 2004 02:19:57 GMT wrote unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) in
comp.os.linux.misc with <cnu6od$b5$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>

>I guess what I would wonder is why you have that stub of a Linux partition
>in the Win partition (/dev/hda5 which you have designated as bootable.)
>I would get rid of it. Or do you have a really really old computer ( pre
>1998) for which the bios has trouble with large partitions. That has long

No. The BIOS is quite new. 2003 or something because I flashed it only a few
weeks ago and that was the newest I could find.

>disappeared. The fact that the extened Win W95 partition contains what is
>probably the /boot partition makes me feel a little bit queasy.

But that doesn't seem to be the problem.

-- 
Gerhard Gruber
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