RE: Weird looking partition table

["Mark Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

Albert,
   Your hard disk can have as many as 4 primary partitions, which are
hda1-hda4. If you want to have logical partitions, which you do, they will
be hda5 and up, and must be contained INSIDE of an 'extended' partition,
which they are in  your case.

   hda3 is your 'bootable' partition, so this is where grub resides. In your
case you may or may not have your /boot directory on the same partition as
your / directory. I'm assuming that hda5 is a /boot directory for one of
your Linux installations.

   Grub can easily handle multiple distributions. hda3 will have a
/boot/grub/grub.conf file. You can edit that file to add another option to
point at the Mandrake installation on /hda6. Just note the way that grub
works would describe hda6 as (0,5).

   Also, there is no reason that you must have two swap partitions. You can
point RH and Mandrake both at /hda4, which will be a faster partition anyway
based on it's position on the drive.

   I hope this helps a bit. I run RH, Mandrake and Gentoo all off of the
same grub installation. It works fine.

Cheers,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Albert DE WINT
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 5:43 AM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Weird looking partition table
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> This is what fdisk -l /dev/hda lists:
>
> /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>  Device	   Start  Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1          9151     14589  43688767+   f  Win95  Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda2             1      3616  29045488+  17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3   *      3745      9150  43423695   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4          3617      3744   1028160   82  Linux  swap
> /dev/hda5          9151      9163    104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hda6          9164     14459  42540088+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7         14460     14589   1044193+  82  Linux  swap
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> Now, I'm rather confused.
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> There seems to be 2 overlapping partitions:
> hda1 and hda5 both start at cyl 9151 ?? Is that OK?
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> (BTW, I never had any Win95 installed, this is weird.)
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> /hda3 * is RED HAT 9
> /hda6 is Mandrake; I guess (this one disappeard out of GRUB, when I
> istalled RED HAT, so I can't boot it anymore)
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> Any comments would be nice.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Albert
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