On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thanks for everyone's help with getting the disk partitioned in %pre. I > have that setup fine now. The weird thing is, that after Red Hat installs, > the partition is somehow moved to #3. I can't figure it out. I'm > explicitly telling it to create it as partition 1. When my machine is > built and I do a : > > fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0 > > Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 255 heads, 32 sectors, 4358 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 10 22 53040 83 Linux > /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 23 4101 16642320 83 Linux > /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 1 9 36704 12 Compaq > diagnostics > /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 4102 4358 1048560 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 4102 4358 1048544 82 Linux swap > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > ### > Why aren't partition table entries in disk order? Weird how the third > partition starts at the first cylinder. BTW, no lectures on the partition > layout please, this is just a test-box. fdisk is supposed to be able to fix that. It used to not work - back in RHL 6.x I think, and exchanged email with the maintainer who said he had found the proble. By then, though, I'd trashed the disk and couldn't test the fix. Try it. -- Please, reply only to the list.
