Hi!
This has turned out to be a pretty long mail (pls cut the unnecessary
part while replying! help keep noise levels down! :o)
Can anyone identify what this mbr is ? (I hope it's not from lilo)
[root@utopia mbr]# strings mbr.hdb
8,| u
VVRP
tInvalid partition table. Setup cannot continue.
Error loading operating system. Setup cannot continue.
[root@utopia mbr]#
and I also have two bootsectors from before....
[root@utopia mbr]# file ../bootsect.24*
../bootsect.24: x86 boot sector, extended partition table
../bootsect.240: x86 boot sector
[root@utopia mbr]#
The once that I got from the 512 bytes of both hda and hdb don't say
anything about the partition table !!
And I noticed a few other problems... fdisk gives me this warning
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(61, 15, 63) should be (61, 254, 63)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
the disk was partitioned during a redhat install over a year ago (don't
remember if I used fdisk or diskdruid)
And I have this other 20gig harddisk which was partitioned by the guys
from whom I bought this machine
--snip from dmesg--
hdb: 40011300 sectors (20486 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=39693/16/63, UDMA(66)
--snip from dmesg--
hdb: [PTBL] [2490/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11
hdb12 >
--snip from dmesg--
do you feel that this(the CHS difference) can cause system slowness or any
such thing ? (coz under windoze I have been unable to get even a
reasonable framerate when I try video capture(12-15fps is YUCK! still
images are better than that!!)
I haven't faced any problems so far... except now that I'm trying to make
lilo / grub my bootloader.
Kingsly
.:: Kingsly John ICQ 14787510 ::.
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.:: Linux 2.4.3 #2 Sun Apr 1 00:02:27 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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