From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: User Subject: Partition table error Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:54:51 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031112165451.2fc54400.junkmail23@home.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Since I had problems with the other disk images I tried the comb-disk from http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/~harkal/ELKS/images/images-latest.zip Here is the old partitions (not created by me) ----- # fdisk /dev/bda Command: p START END Decice Boot Head Sector Cylinder Head Sector Cylinder Type Sector count /dev/bda1 ? 109 32 100 115 43 288 69 543912809 /dev/bda2 ? 114 50 367 13 10 82 72 1629513059 /dev/bda3 ? 100 32 112 101 51 371 72 2036689696 /dev/bda4 ? 119 40 357 32 50 357 6e -2147483638 Command: ----- Why is there an minus mark before Sectort count on /dev/bda5? Allright, I deleted the old partitions since I wanted to add new ones. ---- Command: d Delete partition: Which partition to delete(1-4): 1 Deleting partition 1...Done Command: ..and so on ---- I doublechecked with p, there are no partitions left. Good. I were trying to create one new partition instead ---- Command: a Add partition: Which partition to add(1-4): 1 geo.cyl=79 First cylinder(0-79): 0 Ending cylinder(0-79): 79 Adding partition Command: b // To set it bootable Toogle bootable flag: Which partition to toggle(1-4) 1 Command: t Set partition type: Which partition to toggle(1-4): 1 Set partition type: 81 // For Minix fs Command: p START END Decice Boot Head Sector Cylinder Head Sector Cylinder Type Sector count /dev/bda1 * 1 1 0 1 9 79 81 1431 Command: w // Write table to disk BIOSHD: I/O error dev 300, sector 0 ERROR! Only wrote -1 of 512 bytes to the parition table. Table possibly coruppted. Command: ----- First of all, probably the result is showing up just because my low fdisk-knowledge. The commands seems pretty allright to me. I wonder where all the sectors, cylynder and such did go? Comparing to the first partition table. The harddrive is according to Toshiba T1000LE (My computer is an T1000SE) User's manual an integrated 2 1/2" 20MB harddrive. Thanks Johan