On Thu, Jul 05, 2001, kinjalsonpal wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is my first post on this list ..
> JFYI,am basically a Student at NCST,Mumbai and I am using
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 on my home PC ..
Welcome ... Rare to see someone on Caldera in India!
> Now coming to the problem :- On my home PC I have 10GB hdd
> in which there are three primary partitions - 6gb,2gb,2gb
> ..
Okay.
> Win98 is installed on the first partition and the second
> partition also belongs to Win98 ..
Okay.
> Linux is installed on the last partition in which I have 2
> logical partitions one for Root(/) and the other for the
> Swap partition
Huh ? But you stated on top that you had three PRIMARY
partitions ! That is probably where the error lies. You
probably had just two Primary and two Extended logical
partitions. Please post your partition table information for
clarification.
At this stage, you may not be in a position to do a gpm clip
nor get output with script. Log into Linux as root. Either
on console or xterm type in:
fdisk /dev/hda
When fdisk loads, type in "p" for print partition table info
Jot the full details by hand on paper, then press "q" for
quit.
Post the complete result to the list please ...
> Before installing Linux, Win98 showed me both the
> partitions correctly as c: and d: as the last one was kept
> unused for installing Linux..
> However after installing Linux, Win98 shows 3 partitions
> as c,d and e where e: shows the contents of what
> previously belonged to d: and now the d: show me an error
> message of "Invalid media reading drive d "
Since all bootable systems must be installed on Primary (not
extended) partitions, by all probabilities, the partition
table of hda2 (Win D:) has been taken up by Caldera ...
> In other words the positions of both the partitions are
> swapped (from win98 point of view) Even worse I can't
> access the second partition from the dos prompt ..
> Please help me
> Thanks in advance
>
You need to repartition your system manually and re-install
Caldera after restoring your Windows. For now just post back
your partition table information, and lets see what all can
be recovered.
> Warm Regards,
> sonpal -kj
>
USM Bish
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