"Chris L. Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to mention that I also had the new GUI disk partition thing
> completely hose my partition table. I have two IDE drives. My second
> drive had a SuSE install with a bunch of partitions, and one spare where I
> figured I would just put the cooker root, then I could mount my homedir.
>
> Anyway, the reason I'm able to report this problem rather than screwing
> around re-installing my system is because I found a wonderful tool called
> rescuept. This great little thing let me manually rebuild my partition
> table and get my SuSE back (along with all my MP3s and home directory!!)
>
> All I did was boot with the latest hd image (with the cooker distribution
> on another drive which thankfully didn't get hosed). I chose expert mode,
> no scsi. When the partition tool came up, all I did was hit "done" because
> I didn't want to do any partitioning (I already had my partitions setup,
> thank you very much!)
Really sorry :-((((((
Here is the why of these problems:
- eraseBadPartitions was on
- somewhere, the partition table could be written with no warning (silly me :( )
Now this will not happen anymore (at least, i truly hope) !!!
As you seem to be able to restore your partition table :)
could you send me the following
fdisk -l /dev/hdc
and
echo -e "x\np\nq\n" | /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdc
(which is, (p)rint in e(x)pert mode of fdisk)
that way i may be able to find the main problem, that is diskdrake not being
able to understand your partition table and blanking it...
>
> Anway, I think I'll wait a few days before I try this again. :)
>
:)
thanks, cu Pixel.
