From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932408AbWGaPMI (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:12:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932175AbWGaPMH (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:12:07 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:27848 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932418AbWGaPMF (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:12:05 -0400 Subject: Re: Fwd: PROBLEM: ide messages during boot caused by a strange partition table From: Alan Cox To: marco gaddoni Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3b2bc9d0607310743r2ad59c59xfe0898f685e33329@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b2bc9d0607302313p637ce780sf98b1727213bd6a2@mail.gmail.com> <3b2bc9d0607302316s68734797r212e0a422ed26a50@mail.gmail.com> <1154343947.7230.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3b2bc9d0607310617p21552cc8xba66f935b9ec73bd@mail.gmail.com> <1154356290.7230.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3b2bc9d0607310743r2ad59c59xfe0898f685e33329@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:31:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1154359868.7230.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Llu, 2006-07-31 am 16:43 +0200, ysgrifennodd marco gaddoni: > the disk before was correctly booting linux and windows2000. > then i used the dos6.22 fdisk (?? unsure about the exact dos version) The DOS fdisk will rewrite the C/H/S values on the drive in some cases if the drive is a vaguely modern setup. That will trash all the partition data you have and can lead to corruption of the data too. If you are luck the drive geometry originally used may match the one in hdparm -I If you can work out the original geometry values then put those back and fsck all the partitions with file systems on them you may be ok. Alan