RE: Weird looking partition table

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Op vr 30-05-2003, om 15:35 schreef Otto Haliburton:
> Hda1 is a extended partition containing hda5, hda6, and hda7.  I don't
> know why it has Win95 in it except that partition type is loosely used
> and may have stray bits in it(who knows).  Looks okay to me, maybe
> someone else has an opinion.
> 

Thank you, "I can see clearly, now"
So my Mandrake stuff is kept hostage by "Win95" :-)
Maybe that's why it did not show up in GRUB?


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> 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
> 
> Now, I'm rather confused. 
> 
> There seems to be 2 overlapping partitions: 
> hda1 and hda5 both start at cyl 9151 ?? Is that OK?
> 
> (BTW, I never had any Win95 installed, this is weird.)
> 
> /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)
> 
> Any comments would be nice.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Albert
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