Re: fat, boot windows

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:54:13PM +0000, Christian Mendl wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> Andrew, thanks for your reply.
> 
> First of all, how do you know that my partition is inconsistent - I just
> can't tell that from what fdisk prints out.

I didn't say that, did I?

> The first time I used parted, I did the following (I can't remember the
> actual start value):
> resize 2 EXACTL_THE_SAME_START_AS_PARTED_PRINTED_OUT 11000.000
> 
> I don't know if the geometry was wrong (although I think that this was
> the cause), but Partition Magic, which I also tried, uses the same
> geometry. My bios tells me the following:
> 
>         cylinders:    16383
>             heads:       16
>     sectors/track:       63
> capacity(CHS/LBA): 8455 / 20525 Mb

Well, it's using LBA, and therefore, uses 255 heads.

> What is the problem with parted using a different geometry (than windows)?

There is no problem, just parted will automatically align to the "LBA
way of doing things".

> I'm using Windows 98.
> 
> I tried to do what you told me, but - after booting from the win98
> installation boot disk - the command "sys" isn't there.

You can copy it from C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND, or similar, right?

> Anyway, I dd the first few sectors of hda2.

Did that fix all your problems?  (Wouldn't that obliterate the
superblock?  Of course, with FAT32, there is a backup on sector 6...
... I hope your "first few" didn't include that)

Andrew