Hi Christian, > I have a machine with a 160GB drive, and many > partitions with different Linux and Windows > versions. I'm using grub as main boot loader. > > After booting FreeDOS (which resides on the first partition) > the extended partition is marked as "Unknown". > > Partition table before: > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > gut.bin1 0+ 249 250- 2008093+ 16 Hidden FAT16 > gut.bin2 250 499 250 2008125 82 Linux swap / Solaris > gut.bin3 * 500+ 4677- 4178- 33554432 7 HPFS/NTFS > gut.bin4 4677+ 19456 14780- 118716768+ 5 Extended > > The "Extended" partition contains another 4 partitions, 2 Linux ext3fs, 1 > NTFS, and one FAT32 (the very last one). > > Table after booting FreeDOS: > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > schl.bin1 * 0+ 249 250- 2008093+ 6 FAT16 > schl.bin2 250 499 250 2008125 92 Unknown > schl.bin3 500+ 4677- 4178- 33554432 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS > schl.bin4 4677+ 19456 14780- 118716768+ 15 Unknown
Note how the first partition changed from HIDDEN FAT16 to NORMAL FAT16 and the active partition changed from NTFS to FAT16. The change from 5 to 15 is from CHS extended to LBA extended, you just used a very old software to display your partition table. I also think that this hiding / un- hiding and change of the active partition is actually some thing that your GRUB configuration caused ;-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
