VERY OT, But this guy really needs help (PT clobbered)

[Mike McCarty]

Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> Actually ...
> 
> On 2/17/06, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't see any reason cfdisk needed to write to his /home
>>partition, even to rewrite the geometry information.
> 
> 
> cfdisk should not have changed anything -- but I believe the system is
> confused now because the client has changed the hda5/6 to hda7/8 ?

Only in his entry in fstab, I think. I asked him to try a direct
mount, and that didn't work either.

>>>Here's my partition table now, in a couple different formats:
>>>
>>>                                 cfdisk 2.11u
> 
> 
> Originally this was more or less a Debian issue but I feel it is
> migrating toward a Knoppix/toolset problem -- I would be of very

Well, KNOPPIX is Debian, more or less.

> little help -- I have never used Knoppix and have heard bad things
> about cfdisk -- so I must bow out.

Really? What have you heard? I know there were many times I was
frustrated by MSDOS fdisk insisting on overwriting the BR on
partitions which really didn't need it. Got me into the habit
of always backing up my MBR *and* the BRs of all partitions
I wanted to save before fiddling with the PT.

> Sorry.

Not a problem. You're a volunteer. You help as much as you
feel inclined to.

I'm sure no one would fault you for that.

I was hoping there was someone who knows what the layout of
the "geometry" record is, and whether we can figure out what
got clobbered, maybe repair it.

Mike
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