[plug] Argh! Parted Dramas. Help!

[russ]

I've never used it but it sounds like SBM puts a fake partition table into the
mbr sector and stores the real one for use when it is loaded by the boot loader
code.

That would explain the XP install believing there was no more disk space and
the Knoppix parted telling you the wrong size since you booted them both from
cd and I assume SBM wsan't run. But I don't see how it can boot an OS off the
higher addresses of the drive and not show the additional space used unless it
hooks into the bios? 

There is this comment on the site:

"I found that there are some kind of mother boards that have buggy BIOS's,
which can cause Smart Boot Manager to fail to find all of the drives and
partitions."

 

--- Trevor Phillips <T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au> wrote: 
> I have a shiny new 120Gb HDD. I partitioned it using cfdisk, to which 
> the output of fdisk -l is:
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1               1          61      489951   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda2   *          62        1156     8795587+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3            4807       14593    78614077+  83  Linux
> 
> All is good so far. Note the gap between hda2 & hda3 - 30 Gigs, on which 
> I want to install XP. However, XP refuses to partition the space, giving 
> some excuse about max partitions already used. Bah!
> 
> So, I want to use parted to move the 80Gig hda3 back, so that the 30Gig 
> is at the end of the disk. I fire up parted on the disk, display the 
> current config, and get:
> 
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-114473.460 megabytes
> Disk label type: loop
> Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.000 114473.460  fat16
> 
> What the...
> 
> Anyone have any idea what the frell is going on?
> 
> If it helps, the HDD DOES have Smart Boot Manager installed on it in the 
> MBR - but why should that affect what parted makes of the partition table?
> 
> Running Debian, mostly "testing". Parted is the latest. Also tried the 
> Knoppix parted version(s) and they gave the same incorrect info...
> 
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Best Regards,
Russ