I am just about to dump suse and try another distro as i am getting very frustrated.
using yast to install software and update my system has caused me nothing but grief. i now have a host of problems. well, yast now has no idea what partitions exist on the disk. my /
dev/hda5 and my swap is /dev/hda6 yet yast is convinced my swap is dev/hda7 (which doesn't exist) and that my root is /dev/hda6 (which is my swap). of course when i tell it to read the
fstab, the only place it looks for one is on hda6 where of course it doesn't find one.
fdisk reports that hda6 is ext2 and hda7 is swap while stating that hda5 is empty. dos's fdisk won't even read the
table.
everything was fine until i was using yast so i am convinced that it is yast that screwed up my partition table somehow. but what i can't understand is why my system will boot no
from hda5 with hda6 as my swap and the /etc/fstab on hda5 is fine yet yast and fdisk are under the misguided impression
Is it possible that linux Fdisk reports the partitions
differently than DOS fdisk?
What do you think the partition scheme is? (cylinder
boundaries)
What does Fish report them to be?
I suspect that you just have different names for the same
piece of disk.
TKC -- Your Knowledge Connection
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From: reg hughson
hda6 and hda7 are the correct ones.
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