It doesn't mean any harm. fdisk expects to be told what device you want
it to fdisk. If you don't tell it, it will default to the first hard
disk it can find and warn you that it is operating on /dev/hda (is that
what you want?) If it is, don't worry about it. :-). For the problem
with booting dos, I think you must have accidentally installed lilo on
your dos partition, and you will want to restore the dos boot record
there. When lilo installs itself in a partition, it backs up the boot
record it is overwriting in /boot/boot.xxxx, where xxxx is the linux
device number or the partition. So, if your dos partition is /dev/hda1,
you can restore the partition boot record with:
dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1
/dev/hda2 would be in /boot/0302, and so on.
As for disk druid, I think it just assumes that all your primary
partitions are full of windows, and starts making secondary partitions
as soon as you give it one primary partition to make them from (you need
one primary partition to tell where the secondary partitions
(/dev/hda5...) start).
I hope this is some help to you.
Lawson
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On Tue, 11 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> As I told you yesterday I was not able to go to dos partition
so
> I installed red hat linux but this time it was booting in linux but not
in
> dos .When I type dos in lilo boot: prompt it says dos loading and
suddenly
> comes back to the lilo boot prompt.After booting into linux I typed
fdisk
> it was telling the default is /dev/hda!.I could not understand what
does it
> mean.At the same time during my installation process when tried disk
druid
> for the partition the /dev/hda1 is already there I deleted the rest of
the
> partitions and tried to make new partitions then it automatically takes
> /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6 for swap and native partition respectively.
> Please tell me me what is the problem
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