Re: 2.4.11 loses sda9

[Andreas Dilger]

On Oct 11, 2001  00:45 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 [e-mail] wrote:
> > >   I can get the system booted enough to work on (and totaly up) with this
> > > partition failing.  I dont know what more information from fdisk I can
> > > give you, sda9 is there with .10, and gone with .11  It even allowed me
> > > to add a new partition (i didnt save)  I tried sfdisk but it gave me
> > > these errors.
>
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 17783250 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
>  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
> omitting empty partition (9)
>  
> /dev/sda1   *         1       501    513008   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2           502      3698   3273728   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3          3699      4199    513024   83  Linux
> /dev/sda4          4200      8683   4591616    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5          4200      4700    513008   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6          4701      5725   1049584   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7          5726      5918    197616   82  Linux swap
> /dev/sda8          5919      6419    513008   83  Linux

You probably need to go into fdisk and change the partition type of
sda9 from "0" to "83" (or any other non-zero type).  There is a
reason that it is saying "omitting empty partition (9)" at boot,
and "fdisk -l" doesn't list it - because type "0" means "I don't exist".

In fdisk, use the "t" option to set the type of sda9.

Cheers, Andreas
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