Re: Problem with Linux After Defrag

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

Jan, what is a partition of 83? I have deleted the partiton using fdisk
and am going to put Linux back on since I deleted it. Is there anything
more to do?

Thanks,

Aaron

Jan Carlson wrote:
> 
> Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> >
> > I have win98 on my first partition and Linux on the second using lilo to
> > boot my desired operating system. Well recently I defraged win98 and now
> > Linux is having all kinds of problems on boot up. I get a lot of error
> > messages during boot. What did I do to Linux? Has anyone experienced
> > anything similer to this? I am sort of new to Linux still and could
> > really use some help with this one.
> 
> Did you change the partition type of a DOS partiton to 83 and
> then just format it with Linux?  That could be your problem:
> DOS still thinks it owns that partition, and let you defrag it
> or scandisk it!  Yow!
> 
> You need to delete the DOS partition in question,
> using DOS fdisk, then create a new Linux partition using Linux.
> Sometimes you can break this rule with no problems, sometimes
> it will bite you.
> 
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