Dave Fitch was once rumoured to have said:
>
> Anyone else having problems with GAG changing partition
> types on them?
>
> I've used gag before on my laptop and was impressed with it.
> Since then I've got a new disk (10Gb) and installed linux
> on it then lose98. The problem is gag is changing active
> partitions and partition types on me. The first one
> doesn't really matter, the second one is stuffing up
> lose98.
>
> The disk looks like:
> hda1: 2Gb fat32
> hda2: 200Mb linux swap
> hda3: 2GB ext2
> hda4: approx 5.5Gb fat32
>
> every time I boot into linux, gag changes the type of hda4
> from "b" to "1b", ie. "win95 fat32" to "hidden win95 fat32".
> This results in that partition not appearing under lose98.
> This is very annoying as that partition is a common
> "storage area" used under both OSs. So I've had to go
> back to using lilo for now.
This is actually correct behaviour - not that you'd know it.
You're only allowed to have one visible primary DOS partition, all
subsequent DOS partitions must be extended partitions, or hidden
primaries. GAG is doing its part to assert this so you can have
multiple versions of DOS installed on independant primary partitions.
The Fix? rebuild hda4 as an extended with hda5, a fat32 partition.
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