Subject: Re: Invalid partition table on Dell
To: None <emre@asper.org>
From: BokLM <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/02/2003 03:37:43
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, emre@asper.org wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I apologize for not doing my own research first. I've fixed the problem.
> If anyone wants to know how I fixed it, here's how. I searched google
> (something I should have done before posting) and found this e-mail:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/03/28/0006.html
Thanks for this link, I had the same problem 2 minutes ago :)
> I did exactly what was told in there; I moved the partition to '0' using
> the same information as '3'. After that, I used fdisk -a to make 0
> active. Now it works like a charm. I also noticed that someone sent a PR
> for this:
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=13310
>
> It seems like 'normal' Dell workstations are also affected by this problem.
My Toshiba Satelite 1710CDS seems also affected.
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