25 Apr
2005
25 Apr
'05
2:27 p.m.
Hi,
I decided to give 0.2.6 another try on my hardware and tried to install
it into a small fat32 partition (4th primary partition). The repartition
program did not recognize too much of my partition structure but since I
did not plan to change any partition I was not alert.
Then I formatted the partition (simply using the existing fat fs did not
work at all) and that did not work either. Unfortunately another
partition was affected (it killed the root directory of my i386 (=32bit)
linux partition /dev/hda6). I did not find any valuable data lost so far
(after reconstructing the filesystem) ...
To spare other users this unpleasant experience I would love to
investigate this problem a bit further:
fdisk -l gives me:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 914 7341673+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 915 4743 30756442+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4744 7175 19535040 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7176 7296 971932+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 4744 4865 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4866 7175 18555043+ 83 Linux
And the ROS installer recognizes:
19077MB unpartitioned space
7170MB NTFS C:
17592186024390MB unpartitioned space
957MB --- T 130
18120MB --- T 131 D:
949MB unpartitioned space
so it looks really confused.
Hardware: Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo 1630 AMD64 3700+
Christof
PS: I was unable to start the system I copied from a qemu installation
over to the partition via grub+freeloader (no error output at all). So I
suspect that not only the installer is buggy.
PPS: My partition table in hex:
Device: /dev/hda
0x000: EB 48 90 D0 BC 00 7C FB 50 07 50 1F FC BE 1B 7C
0x010: BF 1B 06 50 57 B9 E5 01 F3 A4 CB BD BE 07 B1 04
0x020: 38 6E 00 7C 09 75 13 83 C5 10 E2 F4 CD 18 8B F5
0x030: 83 C6 10 49 74 19 38 2C 74 F6 A0 B5 07 B4 03 02
0x040: FF 00 00 20 01 00 00 00 00 02 FA 80 CA 80 EA 53
0x050: 7C 00 00 31 C0 8E D8 8E D0 BC 00 20 FB A0 40 7C
0x060: 3C FF 74 02 88 C2 52 BE 79 7D E8 34 01 F6 C2 80
0x070: 74 54 B4 41 BB AA 55 CD 13 5A 52 72 49 81 FB 55
0x080: AA 75 43 A0 41 7C 84 C0 75 05 83 E1 01 74 37 66
0x090: 8B 4C 10 BE 05 7C C6 44 FF 01 66 8B 1E 44 7C C7
0x0A0: 04 10 00 C7 44 02 01 00 66 89 5C 08 C7 44 06 00
0x0B0: 70 66 31 C0 89 44 04 66 89 44 0C B4 42 CD 13 72
0x0C0: 05 BB 00 70 EB 7D B4 08 CD 13 73 0A F6 C2 80 0F
0x0D0: 84 F0 00 E9 8D 00 BE 05 7C C6 44 FF 00 66 31 C0
0x0E0: 88 F0 40 66 89 44 04 31 D2 88 CA C1 E2 02 88 E8
0x0F0: 88 F4 40 89 44 08 31 C0 88 D0 C0 E8 02 66 89 04
0x100: 66 A1 44 7C 66 31 D2 66 F7 34 88 54 0A 66 31 D2
0x110: 66 F7 74 04 88 54 0B 89 44 0C 3B 44 08 7D 3C 8A
0x120: 54 0D C0 E2 06 8A 4C 0A FE C1 08 D1 8A 6C 0C 5A
0x130: 8A 74 0B BB 00 70 8E C3 31 DB B8 01 02 CD 13 72
0x140: 2A 8C C3 8E 06 48 7C 60 1E B9 00 01 8E DB 31 F6
0x150: 31 FF FC F3 A5 1F 61 FF 26 42 7C BE 7F 7D E8 40
0x160: 00 EB 0E BE 84 7D E8 38 00 EB 06 BE 8E 7D E8 30
0x170: 00 BE 93 7D E8 2A 00 EB FE 47 52 55 42 20 00 47
0x180: 65 6F 6D 00 48 61 72 64 20 44 69 73 6B 00 52 65
0x190: 61 64 00 20 45 72 72 6F 72 00 BB 01 00 B4 0E CD
0x1A0: 10 AC 3C 00 75 F4 C3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FB 0E 2B 6A F6 F6 80 01
0x1C0: 01 00 07 FE FF 91 3F 00 00 00 D3 0C E0 00 00 00
0x1D0: C1 92 83 FE FF FF 12 0D E0 00 B5 9C AA 03 00 FE
0x1E0: FF FF 05 FE FF FF C7 A9 8A 04 80 29 54 02 00 FE
0x1F0: FF FF 0B FE FF FF 47 D3 DE 06 39 A9 1D 00 55 AA
0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FE
0x1C0: FF FF 82 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 BB E7 1D 00 00 FE
0x1D0: FF FF 05 FE FF FF FA E7 1D 00 86 41 36 02 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FE
0x1C0: FF FF 83 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 47 41 36 02 00 00
0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
25 Apr
25 Apr
3:12 p.m.
Christof Petig schrieb:
/dev/hda4 7176 7296 971932+ b
W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 4744 4865 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4866 7175 18555043+ 83 Linux
And the ROS installer recognizes:
957MB --- T 130
18120MB --- T 131 D:
949MB unpartitioned space
A closer look at this data turned out that I really selected my linux
partition to overwrite :-( [type 131, 18GB] so no problem here (besides
that ROS is unable to find its partition and boot from it).
It looks like the "unpartitioned space" corresponds to the W95 FAT32
partition I intended for ROS.
Christof
26 Apr
26 Apr
7:50 a.m.
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff schrieb:
On Monday 25 April 2005 19:12, Christof Petig wrote:
The partition is accessible from linux and XP as vfat32 and I copied a
freshly installed ROS over there. So my question is mostly:
How can I get ROS to boot from that partition (Setting up grub+freeldr
(as described in the wiki) does not work for me here). Note: I do not
want to change the rest of the boot setup (Multiboot: Linux/amd64/Ext3
on 2nd prim part, XP/NTFS on 1st prim. part., ROS/VFAT32 on fourth prim.
part, 3rd prim. part contains an extended partition which holds swap and
Linux/ix86/Ext3)
Christof
It looks like the "unpartitioned space"
corresponds to the W95 FAT32
partition I intended for ROS.
Are You sure that You've creates the partition for Your installation? Setting
partition type is not sufficient. 
1:06 p.m.
From: Christof Petig
How can I get ROS to boot from that partition (Setting up
grub+freeldr (as described in the wiki) does not work for me
here).
There was a bug in the multiboot code (used when you use grub+freeldr) making this
combination suitable for booting from the first primary partition of the first harddisk
only. I fixed that bug last week but backed the change out because it caused other
problems. I think those other problems are solved now so I'll re-apply the bugfix for
multiboot shortly.
Gé van Geldorp.
29 Apr
29 Apr
7:28 a.m.
(resent, looks like it got lost in the server outage)
Ge van Geldorp schrieb:
So, if I understand correctly, I should simply replace freeldr.sys by
one out of a binary snapshot (if such a beast exists) next week and try
again ;-)
What about ROS installer displaying a totally wrong partition list (see
above in this thread)? Should I file a bug? [Actually this lead me to
select the wrong partition by not checking that carefully (the extended
partitions did show up but the primary partition following the extended
did not)]
Christof
From: Christof
Petig
How can I get ROS to boot from that partition (Setting up
grub+freeldr (as described in the wiki) does not work for me here).
There was a bug in the multiboot code (used when you use
grub+freeldr) making this combination suitable for booting from the
first primary partition of the first harddisk only. I fixed that bug
last week but backed the change out because it caused other problems.
I think those other problems are solved now so I'll re-apply the
bugfix for multiboot shortly.
7:44 a.m.
(resent, looks like it got lost in the server outage)
Yes, it was, thanks for resending.
So, if I understand correctly, I should simply
replace
freeldr.sys by one out of a binary snapshot (if such a beast
exists) next week and try again ;-)
I've sent you a fixed freeldr.sys.
What about ROS installer displaying a totally wrong
partition
list (see above in this thread)? Should I file a bug?
[Actually this lead me to select the wrong partition by not
checking that carefully (the extended partitions did show up
but the primary partition following the extended did not)]
Yes, please.
Gé van Geldorp.
5:51 p.m.
Ge van Geldorp schrieb:
Now it says ntoskrnl.exe not found (which is an improvement to no error
at all).
Perhaps I see a partition bug (which is difficult to say if you don't
have an OS to display the table).
How would I specify the kernel to be found in hda4 (fourth primary
partition) \ReactOS\system32\ on the freeldr command line, freeldr.sys
is found on this partition. Do I have to activate that partition?
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 914 7341673+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 915 4743 30756442+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4744 7175 19535040 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7176 7296 971932+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 4744 4865 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4866 7175 18555043+ 83 Linux
Christof
So, if I
understand correctly, I should simply replace
freeldr.sys by one out of a binary snapshot (if such a beast
exists) next week and try again ;-)
I've sent you a fixed freeldr.sys.
4:09 p.m.
Christof Petig schrieb:
Perhaps I see a partition bug (which is difficult to
say if you don't
have an OS to display the table).
How would I specify the kernel to be found in hda4 (fourth primary
partition) \ReactOS\system32\ on the freeldr command line, freeldr.sys
is found on this partition. Do I have to activate that partition?
well, freeldr.ini seems to be the right place, but partition(4) gave me:
freeldr does not understand some features of this EXT2/EXT3 filesystem,
please upgrade freeldr.
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 914 7341673+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 915 4743 30756442+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4744 7175 19535040 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7176 7296 971932+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 4744 4865 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4866 7175 18555043+ 83 Linux
will try partition(6) next time I reboot ...
Christof
5:10 p.m.
From: Christof Petig
well, freeldr.ini seems to be the right place,
Yes, that's the right place
but partition(4) gave me:
freeldr does not understand some features of this EXT2/EXT3
filesystem, please upgrade freeldr.
I'd try partition(3). I think FreeLdr will skip the /dev/hda3 partition 'cause it
doesn't recognize the filesystem on it. That would give the following partition
assignments:
partition(1) /dev/hda1
partition(2) /dev/hda2
partition(3) /dev/hda4
partition(4) /dev/hda6
(skipping /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda5). This partition skipping thing is far from obvious, but
I think it was put in for Windows compatibility reasons.
Gé van Geldorp.
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 914 7341673+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 915 4743 30756442+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4744 7175 19535040 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7176 7296 971932+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 4744 4865 979933+ 82
Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4866 7175
18555043+ 83 Linux
will try partition(6) next time I reboot ...
2 May
2 May
1:36 p.m.
Ge van Geldorp schrieb:
I'd try partition(3). I think FreeLdr will skip
the /dev/hda3 partition 'cause it doesn't recognize the filesystem on it. That
would give the following partition assignments:
partition(1) /dev/hda1
partition(2) /dev/hda2
partition(3) /dev/hda4
partition(4) /dev/hda6
(skipping /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda5). This partition skipping thing is far from obvious,
but I think it was put in for Windows compatibility reasons.
Thank you, partition(3) did indead work.
Now I have some gdi problems (a null pointer reference in gdi
initialization) is there any way to get errors/SEGFAULTS into a file (no
I don't have a serial port). I'll try to specify plain VGA (still
investigating)
Christof
3 May
3 May
10:05 a.m.
From: Christof Petig
Now I have some gdi problems (a null pointer reference in gdi
initialization) is there any way to get errors/SEGFAULTS into
a file (no I don't have a serial port).
Adding "/DEBUGPORT=FILE" to the appropriate "Options" line in
freeldr.ini should do the trick.
I'll try to specify plain VGA (still
investigating)
There was a problem in svn end of last week manifesting itself at the switch from
character mode to GUI mode. If your svn checkout is from around that era I'd suggest
updating to svn HEAD.
Gé van Geldorp.
9 May
9 May
3:02 p.m.
Ge van Geldorp schrieb:
I did not find a single file, how is it supposed to be named?
I'm still using 0.2.6 - time to try (cross-)compiling myself?
Christof
Now I have some
gdi problems (a null pointer reference in gdi
initialization) is there any way to get errors/SEGFAULTS into
a file (no I don't have a serial port).
Adding "/DEBUGPORT=FILE" to the appropriate "Options" line in
freeldr.ini should do the trick. I'll try to
specify plain VGA (still investigating)
There was a problem in svn end of last week manifesting itself at the switch from
character mode to GUI mode. If your svn checkout is from around that era I'd suggest
updating to svn HEAD. 
25 Apr
25 Apr
4:26 p.m.
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Christof Petig wrote:
|
| Hi,
|
| I decided to give 0.2.6 another try on my hardware and tried to install
| it into a small fat32 partition (4th primary partition). The repartition
| program did not recognize too much of my partition structure but since I
| did not plan to change any partition I was not alert.
|
Not sure if this limitation exists any longer, but it used to be that
you could only install ReactOS on the first primary partition of the
first hard disk in the system, and that it *must* be of type FAT16 or FAT32.
- Mike
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26 Apr
26 Apr
7:53 a.m.
Michael B. Trausch schrieb:
Not sure if this limitation exists any longer, but it
used to be that
you could only install ReactOS on the first primary partition of the
first hard disk in the system, and that it *must* be of type FAT16 or
FAT32.
This limitation really hurts if you do not plan to use ROS exclusively
on that computer (e.g. if you do not want to throw XP away completely or
you already use a first primary partition for linux).
Christof
11:23 a.m.
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Christof Petig wrote:
|
| This limitation really hurts if you do not plan to use ROS exclusively
| on that computer (e.g. if you do not want to throw XP away completely or
| you already use a first primary partition for linux).
|
ROS and XP can share the same partition. It just cannot be NTFS. You
can always move partitions around.
And yes, while the limitation "hurts," that's a workaround that you can
use. Short of editing the source code, I'm not sure if there's much
that can be done. I'll cc: this to the dev list and ask if the
limitation still is there, but I personally don't see anything about it
having changed. Consider that ROS is still in "early" stages of
use/release. 0.3 hasn't even been released yet. I am sure that when
the partition/fs code is better able to deal with multiple partition
setups, it will all work as it would be anticipated it would.
- Mike
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8:25 p.m.
On 4/26/05, Michael B. Trausch <fd0man(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Christof Petig wrote:
|
| This limitation really hurts if you do not plan to use ROS exclusively
| on that computer (e.g. if you do not want to throw XP away completely or
| you already use a first primary partition for linux).
|
ROS and XP can share the same partition. It just cannot be NTFS. You
can always move partitions around.
- Mike
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ROS and XP can share the same partition but if you are booting without
Grub then the bootloader code can't. NTLDR will have to exist on one
partition while while FREELDR will require another.
--
Devin Smith
27 Apr
27 Apr
12:06 a.m.
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Devin Smith wrote:
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| ROS and XP can share the same partition but if you are booting without
| Grub then the bootloader code can't. NTLDR will have to exist on one
| partition while while FREELDR will require another.
|
Not totally true. You can place the FreeLdr boot sector into a .bin
file, and use NTLDR to boot it, just as you can do with DOS or Linux.
- Mike
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25 Apr
25 Apr
5:46 p.m.
Christof Petig wrote:
Hi,
I decided to give 0.2.6 another try on my hardware and tried to install
it into a small fat32 partition (4th primary partition). The repartition
program did not recognize too much of my partition structure but since I
did not plan to change any partition I was not alert.
Then I formatted the partition (simply using the existing fat fs did not
work at all) and that did not work either. Unfortunately another
partition was affected (it killed the root directory of my i386 (=32bit)
linux partition /dev/hda6). I did not find any valuable data lost so far
(after reconstructing the filesystem) ...
To spare other users this unpleasant experience I would love to
investigate this problem a bit further:
fdisk -l gives me:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 914 7341673+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 915 4743 30756442+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4744 7175 19535040 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7176 7296 971932+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 4744 4865 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4866 7175 18555043+ 83 Linux
And the ROS installer recognizes:
19077MB unpartitioned space
7170MB NTFS C:
17592186024390MB unpartitioned space
957MB --- T 130
18120MB --- T 131 D:
949MB unpartitioned space
so it looks really confused.
Hardware: Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo 1630 AMD64 3700+
Christof
If you need to rescue your partitions, this will do it for you.
TestDisk, http://www.cgsecurity.org, is OpenSource software and is
licensed under the GNU Public License.
Regards,
jh
26 Apr
26 Apr
7:55 a.m.
jh schrieb:
Thanks but XP and Linux recognize the partition table nicely. So it
should not be corrupted.
Christof
fdisk -l gives
me:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 914 7341673+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 915 4743 30756442+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4744 7175 19535040 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7176 7296 971932+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 4744 4865 979933+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/hda6 4866 7175 18555043+ 83 Linux
And the ROS installer recognizes:
19077MB unpartitioned space
7170MB NTFS C:
17592186024390MB unpartitioned space
957MB --- T 130
18120MB --- T 131 D:
949MB unpartitioned space
so it looks really confused.
Hardware: Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo 1630 AMD64 3700+
Christof
If you need to rescue your partitions, this will do it for you.
TestDisk, http://www.cgsecurity.org, is OpenSource software and is
licensed under the GNU Public License.
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