On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
>
> On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> >> On the subject of cfdisk and fdisk, does anyone know why cfdisk would give
> >> me
> >> this message:
> >>
> >> FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6:
> >> Press any key to exit cfdisk
> >>
> >> and refuse to work, while fdisk and disk druid work just fine with no such
> >> errors?
> >>
> >> hda6 (I assume that's what's referred to by 'logical partition 6') is my
> >> swap
> >> partition, and I don't know what would be wrong with it. I first got that
> >> message when I was playing around with installing Slackware (at least that
> >> forced me into acquainting myself with fdisk), so I thought it might have
> >> just
> >> been Slackware, but cfdisk gives me the same thing in Mandrake.
> >>
> >>
> >> -Tom
> >>
> >
> > whats fdisk -l say, also the table printout from fdisk in expert mode.
>
> fdisk -l says:
>
> [root : ~]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 265 2128581 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 266 788 4200997+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 649 776 1028128+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 777 788 96358+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda7 266 457 1542177 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 458 648 1534176 83 Linux
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 973 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 973 1961536+ 83 Linux
>
>
>
> And the table printout from fdisk:
>
> Command (m for help): p
x, then p. ;) these are same printout, and i don't seee anything blatently
wrong offhand, somethings i wouldn't do but nothing wrong
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 265 2128581 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 266 788 4200997+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 649 776 1028128+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 777 788 96358+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda7 266 457 1542177 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 458 648 1534176 83 Linux
>
>
> I appreciate any help you can give.
>
>
> -Tom
>
