On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I just did that, checked it with a p, then w rote it. Got this message: > Warning: re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or > resource busy. Then I ctl-d'd the shell and let it reboot. It booted > to windows, I rebooted, hit esc, that screen looked like the normal > bios screen for selection, with neither hda1 nor hda2, just hda being > the choices. I rebooted to the rescue cd, and re-ran fdisk & found > that flag was off again. I've set it again, but when I w the changes, > the above error is output. You weren't trying to change the parameters of a *mounted* drive were you? When you boot into a rescue mode, you've got choices whether or not to mount a drive. Don't mount a drive you want to play with fdisk on. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
