so at last, it works now. the extended partition of hda5 had its first sector set to 1. So this means that the epbr of the next extended partition (hda6) was in the Boot record of hda4 !
when i was trying to change that manually. i was changing to the correct value but in the wrong place. by the way, i fixed it up with booting from a live-cd and using a usb-key. sfdisk -d /dev/hda>hda.out where hda.out is in on my usb key. then sfdisk /dev/hda -O backup.hda<hda.out to simply rewrite the partiton table saved as hda.out the backup.hda is a backup (made on my usb key too) in case something goes wrong. i wonder if i will really use any parted or gparted in the future now ... i can't be sure than gparted caused that because i used fdisk to recreate hda5... but _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
