From: pit@gccs.imp.com (Peter Berger) Subject: weird fdisk on slackware bootdisk Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 11:03:06 +0200
bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) wrote:
> This problem has been fixed. Thanks for the bug report
> (and 'scuze the nasty bug :^)
So. Well. Another think which is a little weird on the bootdisk.gz (9.9.93).
The fdisk seems to be a somehow broken version.
Description of "problem":
1. Setting up the first primary partition with first cylinder 1 gives
following output when looking at the table:
Begin Start End
/dev/hdb 1 1 xxxxx Linux native
phys=(0,0,2) should be (0,1,1)
What's about that? Never got this before (SLS-bootdisks).
2. If there already a first primary partition set up, and one starts to set up
a second one this fdisk doesn't recognizes that there's already some cylinders
in use.
It still gives [1-xxxx] as cylinders to choose from... No problem for me but I
can be one for beginners...
What I'm interested in now, is what fdisk is this? (I mean from
what package? So I can avoid ever trying this version...).
bye,
Peter
E-Mail: pit@gccs.fido.imp.com