Oh SHIT... stop fdisk

[Master of Reality]

Well... i was in RH8 and decided to install openbsd over redhat 8 beside slackware.

My Grub is using the partitions that RH8 is on and i just deleted them (when the computer restarts). I dont have a boot disk for slackware so i dont know how i am going to install lilo on slackware.

Is there any way to stop fdisk from doing its changes when it restarts?

[voidmain]

"fdisk" has already done it's changes once you hit the "w" key. What you can do is recreate the partition(s) exactly as they were before you reboot and it should be fine. fdisk will only manipulate the partition table, not the file system or data so as long as you recreate the partition table just as it was (starting cylinder is key) it should be fine.

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
"fdisk" has already done it's changes once you hit the "w" key. What you can do is recreate the partition(s) exactly as they were before you reboot and it should be fine. fdisk will only manipulate the partition table, not the file system or data so as long as you recreate the partition table just as it was (starting cylinder is key) it should be fine.

another advantage. the linux fdisk, i dont think we'll ever see microsoft include such a feature.

[ October 19, 2002: Message edited by: Stryker ]