Re: Parted hates my partition table, can't update to Fedora Core

[William Studenmund]

On Jul 3, 2004, at 5:23 AM, Andrew Clausen wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:18:52PM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > The problem seems to be that partitions 6 and 7 aren't inside the
> > extended partition.  I can't think of any painless way to fix this.
> > Perhaps delete partitions 4, 5, 6 and 7 and recover them with gpart?
>
> P.S. How did you end up with this weird partition table?

Disk Druid under RedHat 7.3. This machine is a Dell, and _must_ have 
the weird, goofy partition in there to boot. The first time I booted 
the older (7.3) install tools, I had to do a lot of dancing to make 
sure there was always a type 222 partition around for the next boot. 
That's why the NetBSD partition starts at 64260; there used to be 
another copy of the 222 partition there.

I'm attaching the output of NetBSD's fdisk program, mainly as there are 
a lot more extended partitions that aren't showing up. However it looks 
like you're right, that some of the partitions are off the end of the 
intermediate extended partition.

I might also just try adjusting the length of the outer extended 
partition.

Take care,

Bill

Disk: /dev/wd0d
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1023 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 64260, size 14008680 (6840 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder    4, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder  875, head 254, sector 63
1: sysid 12 (Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT - LBA)
    start 14072940, size 13020682 (6357 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder  876, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
2: sysid 131 (Linux native)
    start 27093622, size 12288000 (6000 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
        end: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
3: sysid 5 (Extended partition)
    start 39381622, size 266798 (130 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
        end: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
    Extended partition table:
        0: sysid 130 (Linux swap or Prime or Solaris)
            start 39381685, size 266735 (130 MB), flag 0x0
                beg: cylinder 1023, head 101, sector  8
                end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
        1: sysid 5 (Extended partition)
            start 39648482, size 64198 (31 MB), flag 0x0
                beg: cylinder 1023, head   0, sector 63
                end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
            Extended partition table:
                0: sysid 222 (unknown)
                    start 39648483, size 64197 (31 MB), flag 0x0
                        beg: cylinder 1023, head   1, sector  1
                        end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
                1: sysid 5 (Extended partition)
                    start 39712742, size 417628 (203 MB), flag 0x0
                        beg: cylinder 1023, head   0, sector 63
                        end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
                    Extended partition table:
                        0: sysid 131 (Linux native)
                            start 39712743, size 417627 (203 MB), flag 
0x0
                                beg: cylinder 1023, head   1, sector  1
                                end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
                        1: <UNUSED>
                        2: <UNUSED>
                        3: <UNUSED>
                2: <UNUSED>
                3: <UNUSED>
        2: <UNUSED>
        3: <UNUSED>

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