On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:08:37PM +0100, Vince Greg wrote:
> >Maybe, this is one of the times that 'partition' and 'filesystem'
> >cannot be used as synonyms. I'm fairly sure that e2fsprogs are not
> >too bothered about the partition _type_. What does 'fdisk -l' think
> >about the 'Id' and 'System' fields ? If the Id isn't 83 ('Linux')
> >try changing it in fdisk.
>
> I have an Id=7 for my partition
>
> I don't understand why it was possible to install all without any problems!
Filesystems, and mount, usually don't care about the type a
partition claims to be. Grub, and perhaps other bootloaders, does.
So, you only see a problem when you try to use grub.
>
> What can I do to repair this without losing all my work!
> Thank you very much
Use fdisk. Option 'l' to list known partition types, option 't' to
change a partition's system Id. 'l' shows 7 as HPFS/NTFS, 83 is the
usual value for linux (and what fdisk normally defaults to). I
think you said you were using hda7, probably you accidentally keyed
't' while you were creating the partition, then 7 when you thought it
was asking which partition to change. Easily done, it's always a
good idea to list all the partitions whenever you create them, just
in case things are not as you intended.
ĸen
--
das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
--
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
