Steve,
you can try:
setup with fdisk: (all linux)..............druid mount points..........
1st primary.......32M......................./boot
2d prim.........(min 2 x RAM).............swap
3d prim..........(?? G) ................../
1 LINUX EXTENDED (not 5, see the linux extended nbr)
Extended partition:
............................................/usr
............................................/usr/local
............................................/home
Eric
Steve Bergman wrote:
>
> ]Hi,
>
> I have posted about a problem with mkswap on extended partitions. This is
> a different problem on the same machine, but using a diffrerent hard
> drive.
>
> I have a 27GB IDE drive which is partitioned thusly:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3322 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 38 305203+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 39 293 2048287+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 430 3322 23237991 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 481 3027 20458746 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 430 480 409626 82 Linux swap
>
> fdisk has no problems with it and I don't think that disk druid does
> either but I'm not absolutely certain. Mandrake 7.0, 7.1beta1, and
> 7.1beta2 all take one look at it and say that the "partition table is too
> corrupted for me' and then says that it will start deleteing bad
> partitions. What I end up with is all partitions shown as unallocated.
> If I click on the option to try to recover partition table (this is all
> from memory so my terminology may not be exact. Sorry.) I just sits and
> the drive "click click, click click's forever. Any ideas on this? I'd
> like to install on this disk.
>
> Disk is set for LBA and is a UDMA66 running on a UDMA33 controller.
> Motherboard is VIA based with a K63-400 and 128MB. This is the only disk
> on the system.
>
> -Steve
