Re: booting from extended partitions isn't making any sense

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:24:10 +0100


On 7 Mar 96 at 11:35, Marty Leisner wrote:

>
> I've used 1.3.45 and 1.3.71
>
> My root fs is in /dev/hda6?
>
> But:
> c509.c:1.03 10/8/94 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>
> (fsck failed)
> martynt:~$ mount
> /dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /dos/c type msdos (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
>
>
> sbin/fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1 205 413248+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda2 206 206 612 820512 5 Extended
> /dev/hda6 257 257 358 205600+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda7 359 359 376 36256+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda8 377 377 437 122944+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda9 438 438 448 22144+ 4 DOS 16-bit <32M
> /dev/hda10 206 206 211 12064 83 Linux native
> martynt:/u/leisner#

You noted that hda5 is missing here. I also have real troubles with
extended partitions (created by OS/2 fdisk) and the fdisk 2.0. It
seems the kernel is doing things right, but fdisk is rather messy
(I've seen the code). I'd like to update fdisk. Who knows where the
latest version can be found?

[...]
>
> marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
> Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org)
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
> Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001
>

------------
Ulrich Windl Klinikum der Universitaet Regensburg
Rechenzentrum DV-med Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11
Tel: +49 941 944-5879 D-93053 Regensburg
FAX: +49 941 944-5882
Just imagine my mail address were <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni.r.de>...