mjs@whuts.ATT.COM (SCHEUTZOW) (11/30/88)
> I'm having a problem with my harddisk partitions: both ms-dos and minix > recognize the same partitions. The solution is to use the minix "fdisk" program, not the ms-dos "fdisk" program to set the partitions. The source code for fdisk is on the commands disk in the ibmpc version 1.2 of minix. I'd like to thank David Lawyer and Robert Regn for sending me email to point this out. Mike S. att!whuts!mjs
edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) (12/02/88)
In article <5117@whuts.ATT.COM> mjs@whuts.ATT.COM (SCHEUTZOW) writes: >> I'm having a problem with my harddisk partitions: both ms-dos and minix >> recognize the same partitions. > >The solution is to use the minix "fdisk" program, not the ms-dos "fdisk" >program to set the partitions. The source code for fdisk is on the >commands disk in the ibmpc version 1.2 of minix. I'd like to thank David >Lawyer and Robert Regn for sending me email to point this out. > >Mike S. >att!whuts!mjs Be CAREFUL! I managed to render my DOS partition unbootable by using Minix fdisk. I was never able to figure out quite why, either. Fortunately I had backed up both my DOS and Minix partitions before I ran fdisk, since nothing short of a high-level format rendered my DOS partition bootable again. Of course, I'm hardly a DOSaphile, so I might have missed something. (Alas, I still have to run DOS for some things.) I wound up using a DOS-based disk manager program (not FDISK) to repartition. I would have saved several hours if I had done that first... Back up *everything*!!! -Ed Hall edhall@rand.org decvax!randvax!edhall sun!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall