https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965#c11
--- Comment #11 from Roland Hughes 2012-02-14 14:27:06 UTC ---
There are two bugs associated with this. I was deliberately opposed to
splitting this because I knew it would be hosed in here.
The ENTIRE scenario is as follows:
Installed MS-DOS 7.1 and got all applications working.
Installed OpenSuSE in extended partition
- during install created FAT-32 to be DRIVE_D so I could exchange between
DOS and Linux
- SWAP, home, and two other partitions in extended.
MS-DOS was unable to access anything other than itself because extended
partition type was 63 which is invalid to DOS.
I then deleted DRIVE_D, which was at the beginning of the extended partition,
and shrunk the extended partition by that size. I created a primary partition
DRIVE_D in the newly freed up space and STILL MS-DOS could not access it.
The humiliating kick to the crotch was that FDISK shipping with MS-DOS 7.1 will
only let you create ONE primary partition.
In the end, the solution had to be:
1) backup
2) nuke entire extended partition
3) create shiny new extended partition using DOS FDISK
4) Resize it with GParted off Parted Magic because DOS FDISK can READ a very
large size, but cannot correctly fill in the value (1.5TB with only 20Gig used
for DOS)
5) restore the other partitions from backup
6) copy the DRIVE_D content from USB drive.
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