Re: Detect the DOS disk

From: Jan Leveren (janlev@home.se)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 19:00:23 CET


> > No, It didnīt detect all of my partitons, my guess is that my second partition on my first disk was beyond cylinder 1024.
> Uhm. A part from the cylinder, what can you tell about the *size* and
> the *available* space on the partition? Does it match with these
> reported from DOS?

I posted a message here a while back, containing fdisk list from Suse compared to fdisk list from Mu. I later found out that i could mount the disk even from MU, even if fdisk didn't see it, so the problem was solved.

Anyway, here is the message again:

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Hi, I ran into some problem mounting my drives with MU 11r0, As I listed =
partitions with "fdisk -l", I noticed some partitions missing. I have =
SUSE 7.0 installed on the same machine as Mu, so I tried it from there. =
My question, What is happening, and what can be done about it?
Suse Listing:
=========
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       383   3076416    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           384      1650  10177177+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           384      1522   9148986    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6          1523      1650   1028128+  83  Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 619 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1             2       619    622944    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5             2       554    557392+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6           555       619     65488+  82  Linux swap
Mu Listing:
========
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *        1        1      383  3076416    b  Unknown
/dev/hda2          384      384     1650 10177177+   f  Unknown
Disk /dev/hdb: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 619 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1            2        2      619   622944    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5            2        2      554   557392+  83  Linux native
/dev/hdb6          555      555      619    65488+  82  Linux swap
// Gr. Janne.
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