Ron....that sounds like a sound approach and a good policy, I
hope it continues to work for you. Major chaos is an apt term
in this case ;o)
Alan
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> 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.
