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unrecognised disk label
From: |
Tim Cantin |
Subject: |
unrecognised disk label |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:02:28 -0500 (EST) |
Greetings,
I am using parted for the first time, and I have the 23-page documentation.
Booting from a GNU Parted boot floppy, and running the command "parted" it
guesses that I have /dev/hda (which is correct; currently a 20GB disk with a
single Windows 98 partition). It also displays a warning as follows:
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 2482/255/63.
Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. You should check this this matches
the BIOS geometry before using this program.
Upon checking the in the BIOS I found that it is set to "Auto", and does not
show me the geometry it detected... lame!
So when I type the "print" command in parted's interactive mode I get the
following error:
Error: Unable to open /dev/hda - unrecognised disk label
I'm thinking of running the "mklabel msdos" command, but I thought I would ask
first since the manual doesn't say whether or not that would damage any
existing
partitions. Would it??
Thank you in advance,
T
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Tim Cantin <=