From: am49469@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Alexander Mesin ) Subject: DOS/LINUX partitions do not agree Date: 27 Sep 1993 21:00:51 GMT
I ran into problems partitioning my drives for linux. I was running
FDISK from DRDOS 6.0, partitioned 2 drives for DOS, and listed them to
be sure I had it right. It said the first drive was C, and the second
drive was D (loical drive). That was all fine, but when I ran FDISK
for Linux, it said that drives C and D were /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4,
respectively. So I figured, "OK, I'll make /dev/hda1 and dev/hda2 as then
Linux partitions, so I did. When I rebooted, DOS didn't see its partitions (it
would not boot up to DOS) It seems that DOS thinks partitions 1 and 2 are
DOS (but according to linux, they are 3 and 4). I got around this by
making four partitions using the DOS fdisk, and then changing the
characteristics of /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 to Linux partitions. I read that
this is not advides, so I was wondering if I did something wrong using FDISK
or something weird is going on. I never read anything on this group
about DOS partitions "moving" in Linux. Can anyone enlighten me?
SASHA