Fixing partition table

[Orion-X]

actually, I just got my Progeny to work today (woohoo)

But in the process the unfortunate happened, for some reason creating a ext2 partition out of my free space somewhere in the middle of the drive killed my partition table. It seems that only linux can read it. I tried dos fdisk and partition magic. The first one just hangs, the second one was nice enough to tell me that my partition table is messed up, I don't know how to fix it if I can't really access it.

I said linux could read it only because the progeny installer was able to read it (duh, it created the mess in the first place), but I can't find fdisk on my currently installed linux system. So I actually don't know if anyone can read it.

But I can't seem to go back to windows right now because grub doesn't even prompt me for booting, it just boots straight into linux. While I am on that, how do I configure grub to boot more stuff?

[Antho]

I'm not sure you were clear enough, you can't use the default fdisk that comes with windows to delete linux partitions.(linux fdisk and dos fdisk are two different programs) If you tried you screwed up your partition table, use cfdisk on a rescue floppy to delete your linux partitions. I dont/t use grub, but if it's anything like lilo, you need to add a dos entry in its config file, don/t take my word on that one though.

[scott_R]

fdisk is probably in your /sbin directory, and you need to su to root to use it. As far as grub is concerned, I've only added to it once, and it was a few months ago, so I can't help you there.

[Orion-X]

Actually, I jacked it up earlier today. So what I did is I used the installer from Progeny (when it asks you how you want to set up the partition table) to fix up that thing. So then Partition Magic was happy with it in windows. But stupid me, when it prompt me that there was something it can't recognize, and asks if I want to fix it, I clicked yes!!!

So then, not only did it wipe out all info in the partition table, it killed my entire logical parition on the drive!!! <woo.. woo..sobbing left and right>

So I manage to save as much as I could to the primary partition since I was still in windows. And rebooted only to witness the unfortunate... and then I just said, screw it, start all over again with linux, and I managed to install okay... Haven't booted into windows yet since, but now I know NOT to touch dos fdisk OR partition magic... <sigh>

I wonder what I can do to format the rest of my now free space into fat32... Or maybe I just create more reiserfs when there is support for it for Progeny.

<sigh> thx to all those who replied tho...