Hello Poe!

Monday February 24 1997 18:15, Poe Lim wrote to Hamish Moffatt:

 HM>> hard drive (EIDE) and it's on the boot manager menu. However, now
 HM>> Warp's FDISK says the Partition Mapping on disk 2 (the 3.2Gb) is
 HM>> corrupt, and won't let me do anything with my partitions except
 HM>> delete them.

 > Did you change m/b or the BIOS? Apparently LBA isn't quite the standard
 > it's suppose to be, and it's implemented slightly differently for different
 > vendors, and when the translations of one doesn't match that of another...
 > garbage.

Yes, change of motherboard (486 with AMI BIOS to Pentium-class with Award
BIOS). It hasn't given Linux any dramas, for what that's worth. Actually,
when booting Linux, the partition check is slightly odd; it says [PTBL] and
some new geometry (which I don't think is any different to what it already
knew), which would tend to confirm your theory.


Thanks.


Regards,
Hamish

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