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Paulo Marques wrote:

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>
>
> I guess the problem is that, by default, Mandrake creates an extended 
> partition when installed, where all the other partitions go.
>
> Whenever I install Mandrake, I'm always careful to switch to "Expert" 
> mode and configure the partitions to be primary by hand to avoid this 
> kind of problems.
>
> If you are a corageous hacker, you can always:
>
>  - boot from a CD distribution (knoppix, etc.)
>  - run fdisk on your hard drive
>  - take note on the cylinders being used by the partitions,
>  - delete the partitions on the extended partition, and the extended 
> partition itself
>  - create the partitions again as primary using the *exact* same 
> cylinders
>  - write the partition to disk
>  - reboot
>
> Probably you'll have to adjust fstab to use the new partitions, but at 
> least 2.4 and 2.6 should both agree that you have an hda :)
>
> I don't know if you'll need to run lilo again before rebooting, but I 
> would do that just to be on the safe side. To do that:
>
>  - mount /dev/hda somewhere (/mnt/disk or something)
>  - # cd /mnt/disk
>  - edit etc/lilo.conf to always use /dev/hda
>  - # chroot . lilo
>
> I hope this helps,
>
I assumed it was because 2.6 was labeling the SATA controllers before
the ATA ones but this is the least of my worries of 2.6. If everything
else worked with 2.6 I wouldn't need to switch between the two.

My biggest woe is that despite having a very cool graphics card I can't
play Warcraft III using WineX. (Which was the reason for my upgrade)

Mike

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