Hello there,
I have encountered a problem with my system in the process of
resetting up Red HAt.
I had 4 primary partitions set up. 1. Windows 95 2. OS/2 boot
manager 3. Linux 4. Linux swap partition. The other day I decided
to make an extended partition and include the Linux swap partition as
a part of that. Using Partition Magic, I removed the Linux Swap
partition and joined it to some free space I had from my Win95
partition. I then created the extended partition. I then divided
the extended partition up into a FAT partition and the remaining free
space (129Mb) I left for the swap partition which I intended to
recreate. Everything up until this point went very well and so today
I decided to get Linux up and runing again.
I did this in the end by reinstalling since nothing critical would be
lost etc. So I started from the Red Hat 5.1 install CD and using
Disk Druid I recreated the Swap Partition and began reinstalling.
After reinstalling, things were not perfect. On boot up the message
"error reading disk 129. Press any key" came up. After pressing a
key, I got to my boot manager (Os/2) which I have set for WIn95 and
Linux - I chose Linux and it gave me the same message again - "error
reading disk 129. Press any key" which I assume comes from my swap
partition and then strings of 01s started coming down the screen
forever. BTW. I couldn't recreate the swap partition to use the
full 129Mb as the maximum it would allow was 127Mb. The Win95 boot
works fine, but when I run Partition Magic now it comes up with an
error: Partition table error #114 found - which translates to: Start
of Logical vs. EPBR is not correct (and it now can't analayse my HD
to see how it is set up).
Rerunning Disk Druid gives the following:
hdb1 1244M Win 95 FAT32
hdb2 3M OS/2 Boot Mgr
hdb3 500M Linux Native
hdb5 188M Dos 16-bit >=32
hdb6 125M Linux Swap
Which looks fine. Any ideas how I can get Linux loaded and overcome
this Partition Magic error - ie fix the HD?
Thanks alot,
Ben
