Urgent Help - rescue question
Hi all folks,
RH9 My box fails to boot, kindly advise; Using rescue disk booting to rescue mode what shall I type at boot.... I have a home partition in the hard drive according to my recollection; boot /dev/hde1 (using ATA66 adpter card) swap /dev/hde2 root /dev/hde3 Is it 'home /dev/hde4'? How to recheck it. Thanks B.R. satimis |
Hi folks,
Problem solved I used the boot diskette booting RH9 box automatically. Then after 'fsck /dev/hdeX' all partitions the box revived. The remaining problem is 'thunderbird' can't start. It is 'thunderbird' causing the collapse of the box. I shall solve this problem separately. One thing I could not resolve; # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hde: 10.2 GB, 10245537792 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hde2 14 78 522112+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde3 79 736 5285385 83 Linux /dev/hde4 737 1245 4088542+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hde5 737 1245 4088511 83 Linux According to my recollection I only created 4 partitions /boot /swap /root /home How can a 5th partition come? Can any folk shed me some light. Thanks B.R. satimis |
A drive can only have 4 primary partitions. To have more then 4 partitions you need to assign one of the primaries as an extended partition. In your case its hde4. Additional partitions are called logical partitions or in windows logical drives. An extended partition is in simple terms a container for logicals. Logical partitions are any ID >=5.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-3.html |
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Thanks for your advice. I am a little bid confused. Is it /dev/hde1 boot /dev/hde2 swap /dev/hde3 root /dev/hde5 home According to my recollection I only created 4 partitions and have not created an extended partition. What about Win95 Ext'd (LBA). How can it come Kindly advise. Thanks B.R. satimis |
It would appear you do not have 4 primary partitions. You have 3 primary plus one logical in the extended partition.
hde1-primary hde2-primary hde3-primary hde4-extended hde5-logical (in the extended partition) |
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If not, someone created it (to my knowledge, partitions don't make themselves ;) ) so, either you did it accidentally, or someone else did it, don't you think so? btw, does hda4 contain data? Regards |
BTW an extended is still a primary.
Unless you used fdisk or cfdisk the utility used during the install most of created an extended partition automatically. No worries if everything is working. |
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