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

[William Studenmund]

On Jul 6, 2004, at 10:03 AM, William Studenmund wrote:

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

Actually, doing that made it work.

Ironically, I was only able to adjust the outer extended partition (the 
one in the primary partition table), but that was enough to make things 
work.

Thanks!

Take care,

Bill

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