RH 7.2 kill hard drive ... HELP...

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2 total messages Started by Anthony White Thu, 08 Nov 2001 17:33

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Author: Anthony White
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 17:33

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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

Re: RH 7.2 kill hard drive ... HELP...

#17

Author: Andrew Kenna
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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