Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:43:35 +0200 | From | "marco gaddoni" <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: PROBLEM: ide messages during boot caused by a strange partition table |
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On 7/31/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-07-31 am 15:17 +0200, ysgrifennodd marco gaddoni: > > is it correct that the max lba sect is LBAsects=156368016 and the kernel > > is asking for 1052835654, 10 times more ? > > No you are right - I miscounted the digits in the original report. > > I'm still dubious the partition table is involved unless you've since > booted Windows and the two have been overwriting bits of each other. > > What tool created the broken partition table - do you know, and which OS > was installed first ? > > the disk before was correctly booting linux and windows2000. then i used the dos6.22 fdisk (?? unsure about the exact dos version) to delete and recreate a partition. then a began a format /s and interrupted hafway because it was too slow. i am not sure that the partition i deleted with fdisk was the first of the disk. It was some time ago, i dont remember clearly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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