Re: Fun with Partition Tables and Zero's!!!
From: Eric Moors (scare.crow_at_oz.land)
Date: 07/15/03
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:33:59 +0200
>> <linux/windows trouble>
>>
>> How did you repartition?
>> What steps did you take(starting from an empty disk)?
>
> I didn't really care about what was on the disk, so I just ended up
> putting Linux first, its swap after that, then last Windows, which would
> throw a fit and its fdisk was totally unusable at this point. I tried
> about any way you can think of: win 1st, linux 2nd, primary part's,
> logical part.s', any config at all. Really, I spent a good 6-7 hours
> just trying to get both of these guys to fit on one disk together. I've
> done win machines before, NT's, Macs, but Liux part is new, although I
> did my homework on how it sees HD's. On my sys, it is /dev/hde- new,
Okay, then it's on a external (PCI) IDE controller.
> clean. That I broke down (on one of many attempted config.'s) to
> /dev/hde1 : windows, so it wouldn't freak, then /dev/hde5 : Linux
> primary, /dev/hde6 : linux's swap. fdisk labeled these like this, and if
> you tried to write any other partition than /dev/hde (notice- no number
You shouldn't write a table to any partition directly.
The partition chain starts from the MBR.
> after /hde) it would say it was writing and updating the table, but it
Yes it did. If it writes it writes.
> never actually did it. There is a program called cfdisk which comes with
> this Linux too, it can cfdisk -P{r} /dev/hde, to show you the raw output
> of the partition table, and that was how I figured out that it had gone
> really wrong, as it had blanked over certain markers with zero's. A
> partition table has special markers in it that must be there for
> windows/dos to even think about looking at it (from my assembler
> programming days). Linux's fdisk isn't as picky, and if I didn't have
> this, I would be setting with a useless HD right now, (unless there's
> another fdisk that can do the same as Linux's).
Only the partitiontable endmarker 55AA is important
>> ###################################################################
>> if your windows is an OEM version, it may ignore the partitiontable
>> completely and occupy the entire disk. If so, use a FAT FS for windows
>> and use parted (or Partition Magic if you have it) to resize the
>> partition and the filesystem.
>>
> Who knows what's in this box? I got it second hand (really, a good deal,
> because it was ahead of its time before, now just average) and have
> since replaced some stuff inside, and I've found a new case for it
> that'll let me fit my CD-RW in it (it kinda hangs out right now- had to
> do some plastic surgery to get it to fit) If you haven't guess yet,
> computers are mostly just fun and a hobby for me, I like to take them
> apart and fix them up, install new OS's and programs...so it's really no
> big loss if I spend a while trying to get Linux to run.
>
You did reinstall windows right?
Did it ignore the partitiontable?
If so, you will have to install windows first, shrink the partition and
afterwards install linux.
Go read a good intro on installing linux first. www.tldp.org should
get you started :-)
Eric
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