I had a similar problem. I used Partition Magic to correct it. I personally consider Partition Magic one of the few Windows based programs I purchase on a regular basis. Note that with any partitioning program, you can also mess everything up. On 29 Mar 2002 at 13:15, tabanna wrote:
Hello, SuSErs :)
After 'flashing' the BIOS to install upgrade for Soyo mother-board, I find that, my Partition Table has become damaged : { my Hard Disk is an IBM 30 gig 7500 rpm } _____________________________________________
fdisk reports , that : ________________
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 4 25672+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(50, 15, 63) should be (50, 254, 63) /dev/hda2 * 4 259 2047752 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hda3 259 514 2047752 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hda4 514 3738 25897032 5 Extended Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hda5 514 641 1024096+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 641 657 127984+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 657 912 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 912 1167 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 1167 1422 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 1422 1677 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 1677 2059 3071848+ 83 Linux /dev/hda12 2059 3738 13481968+ 83 Linux .........................................................................................................
&, this is how is , previously, was : ______________________________
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 59560 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 51 25672+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 52 4114 2047752 83 Linux /dev/hda3 4115 8177 2047752 83 Linux /dev/hda4 * 8178 59560 25897032 5 Extended /dev/hda5 8178 10209 1024096+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 10210 10463 127984+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 10464 14526 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 14527 18589 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 18590 22652 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 22653 26715 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 26716 32810 3071848+ 83 Linux /dev/hda12 32811 59560 13481968+ 83 Linux ...............................................................................................................
Is there, please, any hope to fix this trouble ?
thanks
best wishes, Richard
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