On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> ...disk druid made a type 5 extended partition instead of the
> ttype f that was created by PM4 (my fault, I let it happen) back
> when I installed 6.1 (the end of September, I believe). There
> was never any indication of trouble till Friday night when I
> shut mandrake down to a restart and booted up on Win 98 (using
> Boot magic), did a scan with my scanner and then shut windows
> down to a restart and attempted to boot linux back up. It
> refused to boot and never booted again. No warning, no
> incorrect shutdown, just didn't boot any more.
Something you may not be aware of is that MS (DOS, Windows) and Unix (Linux)
make different assumptions about the sequence of entries/chaining in partition
tables. MS requires them to be in increasing physical start cylinder order,
whereas Linux traditonally puts new partitions in sequence of
creation order. A few minutes reflection will reveal that the two
definitions cannot but cause major chaos.
I suspect Disk Druid and Linux fdisk may have been changed recently to be
compatible with DOS/Windows, and where DiskDrake stands has never been
disclosed, therefore my strict and prudent rule still remains - NEVER mix
partitioning tools on the one machine. I strictly leave ALL my partitioning
to PM5 and have had no worries.
--
Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
