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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: [BL] cfdisk finds Bad signature on partition table
  • Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:50:55 +0000 (UTC)

I have a hard drive that is running BL3 and BL2 perfectly.
But when I try to run fdisk with either one (cfdisk) to look at the partition information with 'p' (print):

FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table

I presume we partitioned this with PQMagic a while ago.

On the web I found someone else reporting this error using cfdisk on a triple-boot system, where all the OSes work fine, and they suggested using pdisk (-pdisk?) instead, as being more reliable.


Pdisk appears to be for macs only.

Has anyone else had this FATAL ERROR with cfdisk?
This is a 3.2GB drive (says fdisk, anyway).


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