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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> On 11/2/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > 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
>
> You had this same problem in February of this year. I
> suggested 'cfdisk -z' to ignore the partition table, but you
> said that the hard drive was bad (I'm not sure if this is the
> same drive).


I looked this up with google and found my problem again.  It is probably 
the same hard drive - 3GB but sometimes it looks like 1.2GB.  I just tried 
'cfdisk -z' on the 200MB BL3 partition and instead of 'FATAL ERROR' it 
tells me I have FS Type 'Free Space' 206.44 MB.' For the 1.5GB BL2 
partition, it is 1498MB of 'Free Space'.  Is this what I should expect 
with the -z' option?  Maybe this is one of the drives where we removed (by 
reformatting) a Dynamic Drive Overlay or EZ-Drive.

If I try the -c -s -f options (override kernel's values) it tells me I 
have illegal values.

As long as I don't use cfdisk, everything works fine.  We must have 
partitioned this with PQ Magic.

I cannot switch between svgalib (links 2 graphical) and plain VGA with
this Tseng card - I lose the plain VGA second time I try to use it - lots 
of colored rectangles.  Interesting card.  This is the one that DOES work 
with X_SVGA server.

> David
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