Problem with 2006.1 installer, wrongly recognized partition

[lucida]

This is on a DELL Inspiron 8600 w/60GB HDD
The disk have a OSX86 Partition on it, but fdisk works without any error..

The installer of 2006.1(I tried both GUI and CLI version), identify it as "unpartitioned"

Here is the picture:

http://lucida.googlepages.com/2006.1.installer.jpg

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[yabbadabbadont]

If the GLI (gentoo linux installer) in this release is the same as the one in 2006.0, then you would be better off following the instructions for a manual stage3 install. You can use the same CD for this, just open up a terminal window (or three) and follow the installation guide.

The 2006.0 installer had a nasty habit of occasionally destroying all of the existing partitions on a drive, even when told not to... be sure you have full backups if you use the installer.

[Andrju]

The 2006.0 installer had a nasty habit of occasionally destroying all of the existing partitions on a drive, even when told not to... be sure you have full backups if you use the installer.

It warnded me about the probability of destroying the partition table after it had already done it
[but though I am teh_master_h4x0r I've managed to recover everything ]
For the good of your drive, you should install it manually - it's not really that hard

[agaffney]

http://lucida.googlepages.com/2006.1.installer.jpg

Looking at the fdisk-reported partition layout, I'm not sure how that ever worked at all. You have a partition type af, which fdisk can't even identify. On top of that, it's a primary partition inside the extended partition. That is very messed up.

[nabla²]

The 2006.0 installer had a nasty habit of occasionally destroying all of the existing partitions on a drive, even when told not to... be sure you have full backups if you use the installer.

It did it on my laptop yesterday, I had to choose it because I had no internet access available. Isn't that a very ( ) serious bug? So there should be warnings all over the documentation! I am a bit dissapointed... Of course I have some backups but all my /home configurations (lost my .emacs ) have to be re-done and so...

[agaffney]

You should never trust any partitioning software. Even the best ones (like Partition Magic) warn you to backup your data before using them. I've had Partition Magic eat a filesystem more than once over the past few years.

[nabla²]

You should never trust any partitioning software. Even the best ones (like Partition Magic) warn you to backup your data before using them. I've had Partition Magic eat a filesystem more than once over the past few years.

In fact, I did not want to let the installer change my partitons (everything done manually before) and no other software (MS DOS, OS/2, Windows, ...) deleted the partitions if I did not want it. However, you are right of course. It's good to learn to do backups more thoroughful while only some not so important configuration files are lost.

[bodymind]

try this:

fdisk /dev/hda

> v

> p

you will get something like this:

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:/media/usbdisk/Pedro/gestorPCBs-20940-20934-20514$ sudo fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1935    15542856    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2            1936        3080     9197212+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3            3081        3210     1044225   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            3211        4631    11414151   83  Linux
/dev/hda5            1936        3080     9197149+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            4632        9729    40949653+   b  W95 FAT32

Command (m for help): v
Logical partition 6 not entirely in partition 2
5415 unallocated sectors

Command (m for help): 

It means that the "extension partition" is broken.. :\ i don't know how to fix it unless i erase everything on the disk..

[jmbsvicetto]

Hi.

You should backup all your data before trying to do the following, Try to change the extended partition so you have:

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/dev/hda2            1936        9729     ...

You might need to delete the partition and then to say than you want to create a new extended partition that starts on sector 1936 and ends on 9729. If that doesn't work because fdisk complains about overlapping partitions, you will need to delete all partitions but the first and to recreate them. You better save that output somewhere so that you create them again with the correct sectors number.