I seem to recall someone some time ago explaining that Partition Magic/System
Commander etc use a "different" method for creating partitions and partition
types, I can't be any more explicit because I don't understand it any more
than that.
However, I had a similar problem with a HD that had been partitioned using
System Commander, I tried using DiskDrake to change the partition type, blank
the entire partition table etc all to no avail - the type 85 partition kept
"coming back". As I recall (it was some time ago now and memory fails I'm
afraid) I used Linux fdisk to either change the partition type or deleted it
and re-created the partitions that I wanted, then carried on with DiskDrake
during an install.
That is my rather vague recollection of events so if you try it you are on
your own ! I can't add any more, and fdisk will destroy existing data so make
sure you're backed up or have nothing that matters on the HD before you try.
BTW Grub is not subject to the 1024 cylinder limit and for that matter the
new version of Lilo is not either.
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 15:23, you wrote:
> I'm finding it difficult to believe nobody has an opinion on this
> -- heck, nobody's even flamed me for a clueless newbie.... :)
>
> > I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already
> > had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive.
> >
> > Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0)
> > I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake
> > to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition and to create my new
> > Gnu/Linux partitions (1 swap, 3 ext2).
> >
> > After installing PartitionMagic I used it to split up my Windows
> > partition (going from a single FAT32 partition to four FAT32 parti-
> > tions). This worked fine.
> >
> > PartitionMagic doesn't see the Gnu/Linux partitions, however. It
> > displays them as one big contiguous "Type 85" partition. Naturally
> > I haven't tried doing anything with this via PM.
> >
> > Other than this, everything's working fine. Both the Me and Gnu/
> > Linux sides are booting (using Grub) and running properly -- but I
> > *would* like to be able to manage my Gnu/Linux partitions with PM.
> >
> > I should point out that all of the Gnu/Linux stuff is at the end
> > of the partition map, well beyond the 1024-cylinder frontier.
> >
> > Anyone know what might be going on? Thanks....
> >
> > Mark Shaw
