No hda

[Travis Fraser]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:46, jludwig wrote:
> Lets Start with this;
> 
> Very carefully in a terminal (like dos more) -- read what you type and
> be sure that's what you want to do -- <fdisk /dev/hda>
> 
> You will get something like:
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7753.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> 
> Command (m for help):
> 
> type <p> enter -- Command (m for help): p
> 
> You will get something like:
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7753 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
> 
>    Device  Boot    Start     End      Blocks       Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1          7     52888+       83  Linux
> /dev/hda2             8         14      52920       83  Linux
> /dev/hda3            15       829    6161400       83  Linux
> /dev/hda4           830     7753   52345440        5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           830     7720  52095928+       83  Linux
> /dev/hda6          7721     7753    249448+       82  Linux swap
> 
> type q enter
> 
> These are your partitions -- the MS partitions will be Vfat NTFS etc.
> 
> Your E partition SHOULD be your last MS partition.
"fdisk -l /dev/hda" will list the partition info.