Eck! I messed my install up!
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Eck! I messed my install up!
started by: somerville32@hotmail.com
Posted by somerville32@hotmail.com on Dec. 23 2004,15:53
I put a 100mb primary dos partition on the same hd as my dsl install and I think it is screwing it up. How do I get rid of it from within linux? I tried cfdisk but I can't seem to get it to work (it is hdc2, maybe I am doing the syntax wrong).Thanks,
~Me
Posted by somerville32@hotmail.com on Dec. 23 2004,17:06
I deleted it but I am still getting an error:/dev/hdc1:
Inode 1030365 has imagic flag set
Please help me...
Posted by somerville32@hotmail.com on Dec. 23 2004,20:04
I made it so that it doesn't check the disks at boot. It's a very messy procedure. But oh well, so far so good 
~Me
Posted by Numenor on Dec. 23 2004,20:11
I may be mistaken but somwhere in the darkand dank cavern of my mind I am recalling that linux needs to be installed after DOS/NTFS filesystems..this might be your problem. If you have deleted the partition have you synced the partition table?
Posted by somerville32@hotmail.com on Dec. 24 2004,15:54
Ughhh... No, how do I do that?~Me
Posted by Numenor on Dec. 24 2004,21:21
when u ran cfdisk how did u run the command? Did you run it like thus..| Code Sample |
| cfdisk /dev/hda |
| Code Sample |
| cfdisk /dev/hda1 |
Posted by somerville32@hotmail.com on Dec. 26 2004,22:47
Neither, I didn't use cfdisk.
Posted by Numenor on Dec. 27 2004,15:16
my mistake I thought u had posted that u used it earlier in the thread...what did you do first to set up the partition and then to remove it?