Doug Purdy wrote:
oddly, this fails here if I give file more data!. It also does not
recognise LVMs.
Thanks John. Fedora 7 won't give permission for redirecting that output
to a file but it works fine with "of=file" or with "| less." I can see
my new partition label "quixote" after 2000+ bytes but to know more I'll
have to locate a program for viewing binary files and some info on what
dd if=/dev/sdb | strings -n7 | less
dd if=/dev/sdb | xxd | less
man strings
man xxd
man dd
bytes to expect at the beginning of the ext3 file system.
One usually needs to be root to read disks.
I have run fsck on partitions sdb1 and sdb2 without it complaining. I've
glanced through "info grub" and grub is made to boot file systems from
other drives so that shouldn't be the cause of the Error 16 unless it
wants to find a copy of itself in the mbr location of Linux disks?
info < pinfo
Maybe I should play with grub to see if that turns up any clues. The
error comes after grub has loaded from the mbr of ntfs disk sda and
maybe even later. It complains of error 16 and when I press a key it
always successfully displays the file system menu from Linux disk sdb2.
Grub reliably makes it there from ntfs disk sda, so where did it find a
file system problem? Can we rule out sda? After I select a file system,
it *usually* works. Anyway, grub is complaining while fsck says my 2
ext3 partitions are okay, so maybe grub needs a look.
Learning how to use grub would let me put grub on the sdb mbr. Maybe by
some weird magic that solves the interrupted boots? ;)
I don't think grub cares where it is.
Thanks for your reply John, if you have any more comments I'd be glad to
hear them.
Doug
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John
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