* Oliver Ob
repeat: ALL i did was change boot order and run lilo [8<] error 0x40 uncorrectable error LBAsect=9 sector=0 end_request: I/O error dev 03:00 (hda) sector unable to read partition table This is a hardware error. It's saying that the drive is reporting an uncorrectable (that's as in, retries and ECC have both failed to correct the error on the drive) error and can not read the data. The failed sector happens to be in the partition table. you got me wrong. i meant maybe LILO contains a bug and maybe lilo corrupted that mbr and pt. lilo neither is perfect. I say this, because runnning lilo was all i did. (reboot afterwards)
Given that millions and millions of people use lilo every day, and never had this happen I doubt it's a lilo bug. It's more likely that you're disk is slowly dieing, and that using lilo (which writes to the mbr) corrupted the mbr. As long as data is only read from bad sectors, it will likely not do much damage to the data in the bad sector. Writing to a bad sector means altering the magnetic stuff on the disk and if the disk is already bad might give incorrect results.
only point: i have been now for FOUR hours searching my entire appartment, i lost that sheet where i wrote the partition table down. is there a tool to estimate partition sizes from their boundaries?
The boundaries are given in the partition table, if the table is toast there are no boundaries.
at this time i am unsecure about editing an entire new pt. i have not my sheet anymore, but if I try and enter totally different values here, I guess it'll NOT work.
it was more or less like this: hda: 128h 63sec 621cyl hda1: 6 256MB fat16 hda2: 83 ???MB linux main hda3: 82 32MB linux swap (or64?= hda4: 6 1.9GB dos data drive
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