Re: WARNING: fdisk vs kernel

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From: Anthony W. Youngman
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00

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In article <m367alzgrp.fsf@host.phony.org>, Gary Momarison
<nobody@phony.org> writes
>fmeissch@eduserv2.rug.ac.be (Frank Meisschaert) writes:
>
> I then reinstalled slackware but before I ran setup I deleted
>> the hda5-9 entries in /dev (on the ramdisk image) and remade them with minor
>> number 11-15. Installation was a succes (after I changed the entries in
>> fstab, of course).
>
>I've not heard of fdisk not seeing partitions, but once I found cfdisk
>assigned partition numbers to partitions in a more desirable order than
>fdisk did.  Seems strange that they wouldn't be the same for all SW.
>
(Would have been e-mail but the address looks a little odd ... :-)

Ever used M$ fdisk? Which hosed my linux install wonderfully by
(unannounced) moving the root partition. So when it tried to mount an
ext2 / partition it got an NT NTFS partition or something stupid like
that ... "kernel panicked at ...".
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