From: ijw11@phx.cam.ac.uk (Ian Wells) Subject: Re: Interaction between the DOS and Linux partition - a problem. Date: 29 May 1992 14:48:27 GMT
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. The partition table is
not designed well enough to prevent this if you get something wrong.
So your 20MB Linux partition is taking the same disk space as the last
20MB of your 80MB partition (use fdisk under either OS to confirm
this, but that's what it sounds like). If that's the case, thenyour
Linux partition will be trashed, and there will be no space to make a
new one since the DOS partition is taking up the whole of disk. The
answer is to remove both partitions (after backing up what you want to
keep, assuming it's still OK) and recreate both partitions, making
sure that they both fit on disk and they don't occupy the same amount
of space.
What did you partition your disk with? Most programs are careful to
prevent this.
Ian.