"Bruno van Dooren" <bruno_van_dooren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i did this. i repartitioned my disk: i removed my old linux partition > to > install BeTest, a second BeOS install. i could not create an extra > partition, although there was still room free. > then i recalled that i used lilo, and that i had to reconfigure it to > be > able to boot BeTest. > so i booted my linux install cd, installed it on some free space, and > created a fat32 disk for sharing data while i was at it. > > so i did that, booted into linux, added > other=/dev/hda5 > label="BeTest" > table=/dev/hda > > but running lilo gave the error: could not open partition table. (5 > was the > correct partition number. i checked that.) BeOS only supports primary partitions, no extended/logical ones. There was nothing wrong with lilo, I would guess. I don't know remember if it's a version issue, but using Linux's fdisk has had some issues, maybe it's also related to that. > i was able to configure lilo to boot my old BeOS install, but while > booting > it complained about there not being a bootable BeOS volume. Because it was obviously not installed on a primary partition. > SHOCK HORROR: the installer did not recognize any volumes, and was > not able > to do anything. > after removing some volumes i was able to boot BeOS, only to discover > that > of the 2 BeOS volumes, i removed the wrong one... > > AAAAAAAAAAARGHHH > > ok luckily i had backups of my ps2 driver projects, so no harm done > there. i > only lost a day of work on my nvidia driver. that sucks, but it could > be > worse. If you haven't filled that partition yet too much already, please check out my BFS-tools (requires a running BeOS, though) to recover the data from that partition. It will even work (but data my have been corrupted) if you already created a new file system on that partition. > can anybody tell me what i did do wrong? my guess is that there were > too > many volumes on the disk. that or the Be installer cannot read lilo > master > boot records. > can this be true? The Be installer doesn't have to read lilo's data. It only loads the partition data from the MBR. Adios... Axel.