Bug with hide - [fork of "Still no success with boot to NT on hda2"]

[Uwe Dippel]

(I'll continue with the original topic elsewhere ...)

While trying to solve the original problem (booting NT from hda2) in 

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1       208    104800+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2   *       209      3256   1536192    6  FAT16
/dev/hda3         19791     19999    105336   83  Linux
/dev/hda4         20000     70000  25200504    5  Extended
/dev/hda5         20000     21056    532696+  82  Linux swap
</snip>

, I tried all of the alternatives proposed in this list. One of them
being to hide (hd0,0). Which is what I did. After the 'boot' without
success ("This is not a bootable disk. ....."), grub however refused to
come back to me after hard reboot.
It indicated Error 17 at stage 1.5

I had to resort to boot-floppy. Unfortunately, the /boot (hda1) was
gone. 
With a rescue, I found 

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1       208    104800+  93  Amoeba
/dev/hda2   *       209      3256   1536192    6  FAT16
/dev/hda3         19791     19999    105336   83  Linux
/dev/hda4         20000     70000  25200504    5  Extended
</snip>

The 'hide' had converted hda1 into type 93 (Amoeba). Fortunately I
could revert to 83 with fdisk and reboot. 
I have then tried to reproduce the fault and that effort was
successful.
A 'hide' of hda1 changes the type permanently to Amoeba. Which renders
hda unbootable.



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