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From: carty@dteng1.enet.dec.com (Hugh Carty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: help with invalid partition table
Message-ID: <1464@rust.zso.dec.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 12:45:15 GMT
Sender: guest@rust.zso.dec.com
Reply-To: carty@dteng1.enet.dec.com (Hugh Carty)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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System is a 80286 with 20 mb hard disk.Booted system with #2 flopppy
disk ie AT disk
and entered date and time etc as boork says.
I 'm using 1.5 minix.
Now would like to use hard disk partition and my 4 mb of RAM.
So did fdisk -h4 -s17 /dev/hd0
 came bak with three partitions.
I changed these to
/dev/hd0 20400 
/dev/hd1 6800
/dev/hd2  14828  ie I wanted this as my RAM disk
sync.and reboot
Did a mkfs /dev/ho0 10200
          mkfs /dev/hd1 3400
           mkfs /dev/hd2 7414

and readall -b badblocks and there were none found
Did /etc/setup_root /dev/hd3 7414 10200 3400 7414 0
and this gave no indication that I did something wrong
Reboot and left # 2 in diskettte drive and now hit the =
key.Result panic .... error message came and went 
almost immediately.
Rebooted machine and tried again but when now enter the = key
the system prints out at the bottom of the screen 
Invalid partition table on Winchester 0
Cannot run mkfs on any partition other than hd0
mkfs /dev/hd1  3400 now  returns 
Unrecoverable writr error on devive 3/1 block 3399
error:File system is too big for minor device
Line 1 being processed when error detected.

I cannot get rid of this error on boot up and cannot find where menu is
referenced
is sources to see what it's looking for when you type the =.

Would love to get back to beginning or have I created a problem with the
disk now.




Hugh Carty