This is my situation:
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[root@ugames /root]# fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1 122 245920+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 * 123 245 702 923328 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(122, 0, 1) logical=(244, 0, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(350, 127, 63) logical=(701, 63, 63)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(350, 127, 63) should be (350, 63, 63)
/dev/hda3 352 703 716 28224 82 Linux swap
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(351, 0, 1) logical=(702, 0, 1)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 127, 63) logical=(715, 63, 63)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(357, 127, 63) should be (357, 63, 63)
/dev/hda4 359 717 1312 1201536 83 Linux native
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(358, 0, 1) logical=(716, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(655, 127, 63) logical=(1311, 63, 63)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(655, 127, 63) should be (655, 63, 63)
Command (m for help):
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When I try to do LILO, this is what I get:
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Added linux *
Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 2nd entry
3D address: 1/0/122 (491904)
Linear address: 1/0/244 (983808)
The partition table is *NOT* being adjusted.
Added dos
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where linux = /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1 = /
/dev/hda4 = /usr
disk is a Maxtor 72700AP 2.7G drive....
have a EIDE controller card, with enhanced bios, as my computer
is so ancient (486dx2/66 from like 93 or so) it cant handle more than
2 drives, nor the big drives...
ive also got a 428 meg seagate as /dev/hdb, a
120 meg connor as /dev/hdc, and a nec cdrom:285 as /dev/hdd
have to have a disk manager program load up from the mbr right now
(because of the bios),
so i would have to do lilo as superblock of partition, rather than mbr
(until i get myself
a newer motherboard and cpu)....
saw something about this (i think) a bit ago...
would rather not have to re-partition everything if i can get away with
it, as i dont
have a real efficient way of backing everything up att........except
possibly with a 120m
(compressed, 60m uncompressed) colorado jumbo tape drive (floppy tape,
qic-02 i think),
that would probably take a couple dozen tapes to back up (total of about
3.2gigs)...
any ideas?
if you need more info, just let me know...
lance