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save my partition table!!!!
Master of Reality:
(i'm too lazy to start a new thread for this)
I installed redhat 7.2 and when i start up it says "invalid partition table".
Now just before i installed, i used a win98 boot floppy and did "fdisk /mbr" to get that damn EZbios off my computer.
I tried re-installing with several different partitioning schemes.
right now i have:
hda1 /boot
hda2 /swap
hda3 vfat
hdb1 /
hdb2 is just free space (no actual partition)
voidmain:
After you wipe out sleEZy BIOS you'll need to delete any partitions on the drive, then create your new ones.
Master of Reality:
I did delete all my partitions and then partitioned them with diskdruid (in the redhat install), that didnt work, so i tried partiting with fdisk and that didnt work either.
I tried to load slackware (after i installed and got the same error message) from a boot disk and it says "kernel panic: VFS: error while trying to mount root fs".
I tried repartitioning the hard drive and installing slackware on only my first hard drive, but that didnt work.
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is it just me, or do i really have the worst computer problems around here?
[ May 13, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]
Calum:
i wish i could just run you off a copy of partition magic 4, as i say, it has the best DOS running partition tool, you just use a DOS bootdisk and run it off the CD, thereby leaving nothing accessing the hard drive to interfere with the process. That's the problem with these non-GPL programs though, always on the take.
Anyway, i saw partitionmagic 5, the full version, totally registered, no nagscreen, no crippleware, free on a cover CD as abandonware the other day! that throws a new light on my worrying about copying partition magic 4 for people... Still, sorry it doesn't help you more, since i am unlikely to bump into you to give you a copy of this CD.
voidmain:
If Linux is having problems with your partition table then you probably have something set up wrong. Is it set properly in the BIOS? Or you didn't run the EZ-BIOS utility to wipe out the boot sector and partition table.
[ May 13, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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