This newsgroup has been very helpful in the past.
This problem probably should be sent to a dos newsgroup
but being a SuSE user since 5.2 perhaps you can help.
I have SuSE 6.3 on my new computer.
I have this problem on my old computer
1. When I boot from the HD, I get this message:
Operating System not found
2. Booting with a rescue floppy I get:
invalid drive in search path
invalid drive specification
a:\> fdisk
error reading disk
a:\> msd
does not detect c: drive
a:\> scandisk
does not detect c: drive
a:\> defrag
does not detect c: drive
3. Using Partition Magic:
DISK 1-- 0 MB (can't create a partition)
4. Boot with AT&T rescue disk:
Run diagnostics:
"Your hard drive does not appear
to be partitioned"
Partition now
n -- cannot proceed
a:\>
5. Using a SuSE 6.3 linux rescue disk, I can mount /dev/hda1
and /dev/hda2 as shown below:
# du
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ram2 3579 3484 95 97% /
/dev/hda1 431152 376824 54328 87% /mnt
/dev/hda2 93695 52582 36275 59% /mnta2
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# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 428 431392+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 429 524 96768 83 Linux native
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This is part of /var/boot.msg:
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>hda: WDC AC2540F, 515MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=1048/16/63
<4>hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<4>Partition check:
<4> hda: [PTBL] [524/32/63] hda1 hda2
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I can logon to /dev/hda2 using a lilo boot disk and I have a usable
linux system.
I guess the partition table is messed up in dos but why does
linux recognize the partitions?
TIA
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