From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) After I installed Fisher, and mounted a (separate) disk with a FAT32 partition, I am unable to read the disk when I boot to DOS/Windows 98. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: I installed Fisher using the feature that finds old Linux partitions and uses them. The disk that is messed up should not be touched by this. It is a 8GB disk, formatted in one partition as FAT32. After Fisher was installed, I mounted it, and perhaps executed ls on it, but didn't write anything. When I rebooted to Windows 98 the first time, it tried to run SCANDISK on it, but it crashed totally, before it was able to start checking it. I was unable to start Windows until I physically disconnected the bad disk. When I boot to DOS and run DIR on it, the screen is filled with mainly grabage, and a few entries that look like files with bad names, but nothing of the original, and in the end it says there is a partition error. Norton Disk Doctor was also unable to read it, and did not want to try to fix it. I can still mount and read it in Fisher, though, and I was able to copy out all the important files. When I try to run the fsck for DOS, it does not find any errors. I mounted another 45GB FAT32 disk without any problems, and I have also copied both to and from it. I use a HPT370 controller. Linux was installed on the first disk on the first port, the messed up disk is the second disk on the first port, and the 45 GB disk is alone on the second port. If there is a program I can run to get a copy of the partition table or anything else that might help you, please let me know.
How was your system partitioned before installing Fisher? How do your partitions look now (you can use the fdisk -l /dev/hda, for example, to get the partitions on /dev/hda)?
fdisk -l info for all my disks. hdf is the one that doesn't work in DOS. I have been tipped by a person who thinks he may have had the same problem, that fdisk /mbr might fix it. I have not tried it yet, as I wanted to be able to give you the info you need. Unless I hear from you again in a few days, I'll try it, and let you know what happens.I have not changed the layout of the disks after I installed Redhat. Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1229 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 396 3180838+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hde2 397 399 24097+ 83 Linux /dev/hde3 400 1229 6666975 5 Extended /dev/hde5 400 1220 6594651 83 Linux /dev/hde6 1221 1229 72261 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/hdf: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1046 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdf1 * 2 1046 8393962+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdf5 2 1046 8393931 b Win95 FAT32 Disk /dev/hdg: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5473 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdg1 * 1 5473 43961841 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Have you tried the newer wolverine beta?
No, should that fix the disk, or just crash it again? I haven't fixed it yet.
Just FYI, I've had the same problem with Fisher and Win98. The partition setup I ended up with is as follows: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 16 128488+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 17 19 24097+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 325 1027 5646847+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda4 20 324 2449912+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 20 315 2377588+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 316 324 72261 82 Linux swap Yes, the partitions were originally out of disk order. Unfortunately, I didn't have the foresight to make a list of the original partition boundaries. Although Windows (off /dev/hda1 or a boot floppy) apparently has problems with the file allocation table on /dev/hda3 (namely, the directory listing looks like the Matrix), Linux reads it just fine. I haven't been able to reproduce this bug--for lack of trying. When I do the ol' Windows format/reinstall on /dev/hda3, I'll try installing Wolverine, just to see if the bug persists in the newest beta. However, I have a feeling that the gremlin that popped up in the Fisher install has done its job and gone home for a nice cuppa tea.
Partitioning seems to causes lots of problems on certain systems, I am sorry you encountered these issues. I am not sure what we can do at this point to help. I will close the bug as NOTABUG (closest match to the situation we have) but please reopen if you have new problems or information.
*** Bug 45885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***