Allan
From: Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Allan Mee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:08:23 +0100
hum you forgot to reply to the cooker list. I am not the maintainer of any
partitioning package :) just a tester
Pascal
Le Mardi 14 Janvier 2003 16:28, vous avez �crit :
> If you are right, then it is a situation that needs to be sorted - and
> quickly! The only reason I didn't do an "expert" installation and manually
> FDISK/Partition my hard-disk was because I assumed the OS would be less
> error-prone than me - I certainly don't want to find I have to replace tens
> of GB of data at some future stage. Having deleted all my partitions and
> started from scratch after the last time, I checked with every utility I
> have (various partition managers, fdisk, fips etc. etc.) and they all say
> the HD partitions are ok - but my point is, installing Linux is hoary
> enough when it goes as it should - but any bug in the partitioning software
> is potentially disastrous - and certainly won't do Linux any favours!
> Question - has anybody used the Ranish partition manager? It allows up to
> 32 primary partitions (instead of the usual 4) and can semmingly handle all
> OSs which can boot beyond 8GB.
> I'm tempted to try it - but would like to talk with anyone else who has
> tried it first.
> Allan
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Allan Mee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?
> >Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:48:37 +0100
> >
> >
> >I suspect diskdrake to have a bug in certain conditions.
> >
> >I have noticed several mdk installations where fdisk or cfdisk complains
> >about
> >overlapping partitions, or partitions not ending on cylinder boundary (for
> >ex
> >the first primary ending on 788 for exemple and the extented partition
> >starting at 788 too !). It was the case on MDK90, I dont know if it's
> > still true on MDK9.1B1 ?
> >
> >Pascal Cavy
> >
> >Le Mardi 14 Janvier 2003 15:35, Allan Mee a �crit :
> > > hmmm I wonder if you have got/had the same problem as me - Windoze
> >
> >reported
> >
> > > an error in disk size reported and "fixed it" during a defrag session -
> > > then I got a message similar to yours (I can't remeber the exact
> >
> >message)
> >
> > > and some utilities (including fips 2.0) said I had overlapping
> >
> >partitions -
> >
> > > yet I had done an automatic install (I just fdisk x% for Windows and
> > > let Linux automatically take care of the remainder (120 GB - x%) space
> > > - so
> >
> >far
> >
> > > I have been unable to reproduce the circumstances but I now view MS
> > > Scandisk and Defrag with more suspicion (and caution) than ever!
> > > Allan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "J. Greenlees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?
> > > >Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:33:20 -0800
> > > >
> > > >Vincent Meyer, MD wrote:
> > > >>Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> Getting this message whenever I boot up the machine, multiple times
> >
> >at
> >
> > > >>different stages of the boot:
> > > >>
> > > >>ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed.
> > > >>
> > > >>no idea why or what it means. What other info will help?
> > > >
> > > >only time I've seen disk read errors was when the drive was failing to
> > > >register with the bios.
> > > >or crashing ( ancient drive )
> > > >if your partition table got damaged at all that could concievably
> > > > cause same error.
> > >
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