From: yveslach@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Yves LACHANCE) Subject: [Help] Invalid partition table message at boot Date: 23 Sep 1993 05:40:35 GMT
Somehow, I scrapped my partition table with Linux' fdisk. (I think)
Details below. (Please respond in email.) Thank you.
I first installed Linux on my drive (that is brand new) like this:
/dev/hda1 10M Linux swap
/dev/hda2 115M Linux extfs (ext2fs actually)
I successfully mkswap'ed and mke2fs'ed these two. Then I made a new
partition, for the remaining size of the drive:
/dev/hda3 200M Linux extfs (ext2fs again)
I had problems mke2fs'ing it, so I went back to fdisk, deleted the
partition. Instead of typing "n" for a new partition, I typed "a" with
the partition #3. I was told that this was an empty partition.
Eventually, I figured out that I was typing "a" (for add) instead of "n".
I then rebooted, and it told me, before the LILO prompt:
Invalid partition table
And hung up there. I have to boot with my floppy disk.
When I couldn't make it work, I decided to re-install Linux from
my SLS 1.03 distribution. After going through the main system (series
a, b & c), it told me the same message. I tried the FIX-TABLE and the
IGNORE-TABLE lines in /etc/lilo/config (and then lilo'e it), to no
avail.
Both MS-DOS' and Linux' fdisks read the partition table information
fine... On my new configuration, I now have only two partitions, having
merged the 115M and 200M ones.
Can anyone help? Please reply by email.
yveslach@cs.mcgill.ca