Thanks guys for looking into my problem
>I don't understand why deleting the partition hda4 and recreating it
>using a well-behaved partitioning program doesn't solve your problem.
>Could you post the sfdisk results after just deleting the partition
>hda4 ?
I tried both cfdisk and fdisk to delete and recreate the partition but it
didn't work. And I suppose that they're as well-behaved as partitioning
programs can get. I wasn't too sure about using sfdisk after reading the for
expert hackers only warnings in the man pages. Dos fdisk hangs after the 'do
you want large disk support question'.
After deleting the partition sfdisk gives this output:
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Disk /dev/hda: 2096 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 637 638- 5124703+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 638 639 2 16065 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 677 2095 1419 11398117+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda5 677+ 868 192- 1542177 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 869+ 877 9- 72261 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 878+ 1316 439- 3526236 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1317+ 2095 779- 6257286 7 HPFS/NTFS
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
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>If you're adventurous enough, you could manually edit the partition
>table
Yeah I'm adventurous :-) Any pointers Kala on how to go about it?
>Then make a new partition table, change the
>display to sectors (u in fdisk), and then keep on adding partition
Ajay, does this mean that I first delete all the partitions using fdisk first
and then recreate them? Is it OK to do that with a mounted /dev/hda7 (root) or
would it be better to boot through the RedHat rescue image on the 6.2 CD.
Trevor
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