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Article #17Re: RH 7.2 kill hard drive ... HELP...
From: Andrew Kenna
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:33
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:33
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You will need to grab your os/2 boot disk and re-install boot manager and tell it about your redhat partition Regards Andrew "Anthony White" <anthonyw@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:3BEAB432.97AFDFE4@bigpond.net.au... > > Hi Guys, > > I installed RH7.2 on a 4th SCSI drive using GRUB > installed on the 4th drive. > > It messed up the partition table on drive 1! > > My first hard drive is a 4.3G SCSI with a standard > OS/2 boot manager. > > I use this boot manager to point to the different > bootable partitions on various drives. > > These is DOS 6.22 on drive 1 (Via NT 4 boot loader), > Win 95 and OS/2 Warp4. Nt4 is booted via the NT boot > loader. > > The OS/2 boot manager also points to a partition > on drive 2 which has Lilo for a Redhat 7.1 install. > > This config has worked flawlessly for years. > > I have not asked Redhat to do anything to the first > hard drive during the install. There was a warning > about partition table during install and shutdown after > install but this should not have affected disk 1 in any > way as I did not select anything to be done to disk 1. > > > When I booted up again the OS/2 boot manager came up > with some entries missing. When I ran Partition magic > to see why it shows error #114 which has to do with > partition boundaries. > > > What can I do now? > > Why did Redhat 7.2 even touch my partition table on > drive 1? > > I need to restore the partition table to a state > where I can manipulate it with Partition Magic. > > Any advice on this??? > > Anthony
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