From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (`Grave' Dave Gymer) Subject: Re: Interaction between the DOS and Linux partition - a problem. Date: 1 Jun 1992 11:18:41 GMT
In article <IJW11.92May29154827@reach.cl.cam.ac.uk> ijw11@phx.cam.ac.uk (Ian Wells) writes:
>In article <1992May29.105113.22866@discus.technion.ac.il> eeron@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ron Daisy) writes:
>
> I installed Linux on a 80Mb HD on a part of about 20Mb.
> (The partition was 60M for DOS and 20M for Linux)
> When I loaded DOS and type dir, I saw that there is about 80Mb
> free space on the HD. (There was no program installed on the DOS
> part at that time)
> When I added some stuff to the DOS part (about 60Mb stuff)
> and later try to load Linux I have got "kernel panic".
>
>You seem to have made your partitions overlap.
>[...]
>What did you partition your disk with? Most programs are careful to
>prevent this.
>
>Ian.
Actually, I suspect that Ron didn't format the DOS drive after he did his
paritioning. This would explain both the corruption and the fact that dir
gives 80 meg free space on the DOS part'n. None of the 3 part'n editors
I've used would allow you to create overlapping areas (well, come to think
of it, maybe edpart does...)
Does this seem reasonable?
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