Hi,
I have Mandrake 8.2 installed in dual boot with WIN ME, and everything
works fine. When I tried to install RedHat, I got a message saying the
partition table was unreadable, that I had to reinitialize, with a
subsequent loss of all data.
It turns out that my partition table looks like this:
Partition Table for /dev/hda
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- ---------
3 Primary 0 433754 63 433755 Linux (83) None (00)
1 Primary 433755 9622934 0 9189180 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (0C) Boot (80)
2 Primary 9622935 39070079 0 29447145 Extended (05) None (00)
5 Logical 9622935 11181239 63 1558305 Linux swap (82) None (00)
4 Primary 11181240 11984489 0 803250 Linux (83) None (00)
6 Logical 11984490 20161574 63 8177085 Linux (83) None (00)
7 Logical 20161575 39070079 63 18908505 Linux (83) None (00)
So the extended hda2 partition (which actually I was never able to see during
the installation of Mandrake 8.0 or 8.2) encompasses the Linux ext2 partitions
hda3-hda7.
Why is Mandrake able to work on such a partition table?
What I did:
a) reduce the Win partition
b) create manually (using the diskdrake tool at the installation step) partitions
c) and that was all!
Tx
Marc
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