[ros-general] ROS installer scribbled over my ext2 partition :-(

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Christof Petig
> 
> well, freeldr.ini seems to be the right place,

Yes, that's the right place

> but partition(4) gave me:
> 
> freeldr does not understand some features of this EXT2/EXT3 
> filesystem, please upgrade freeldr.
> 
> > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *           1         914     7341673+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda2             915        4743    30756442+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda3            4744        7175    19535040    5  Extended
> > /dev/hda4            7176        7296      971932+   b  W95 FAT32
> > /dev/hda5            4744        4865      979933+  82  
> Linux swap / Solaris
> > /dev/hda6            4866        7175    18555043+  83  Linux
> 
> will try partition(6) next time I reboot ...

I'd try partition(3). I think FreeLdr will skip the /dev/hda3 partition 'cause it doesn't recognize the filesystem on it. That would give the following partition assignments:

partition(1) /dev/hda1
partition(2) /dev/hda2
partition(3) /dev/hda4
partition(4) /dev/hda6

(skipping /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda5). This partition skipping thing is far from obvious, but I think it was put in for Windows compatibility reasons.

Gé van Geldorp.