I give up on x86-64, its too busted.

[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I just did that, checked it with a p, then w rote it.  Got this message:
> Warning: re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or 
> resource busy.  Then I ctl-d'd the shell and let it reboot.  It booted 
> to windows, I rebooted, hit esc, that screen looked like the normal 
> bios screen for selection, with neither hda1 nor hda2, just hda being 
> the choices.  I rebooted to the rescue cd, and re-ran fdisk & found 
> that flag was off again.  I've set it again, but when I w the changes, 
> the above error is output.

You weren't trying to change the parameters of a *mounted* drive were
you?

When you boot into a rescue mode, you've got choices whether or not to
mount a drive.  Don't mount a drive you want to play with fdisk on.

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