Hello Hamish,

On Feb 28 11:04 in a msg to Poe Lim, Hamish Moffatt of 3:632/552 wrote:

 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.

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

There is a very good doc that explains what happens when you try to do that
(basically stuffs things up); unfortunately can't recall the document name
or site, although I think I have it around somewhere...

Cheers,
Poe

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