weird setup_harddisks problem

[Holger Mense]

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Michael Tautschnig wrote:

Hi,

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>> Michael you are right. I have no Idea what to do now :-(
>> I _must_ preserve the NTFS partition.
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[...]

> To do so, add sfdisk="--force" to an appropriate ???.var file in your class/
> directory.
>
> To avoid nightmares, backup your NTFS partition :-)

I also had this problem some weeks ago while switching from kernel 2.4 to 
2.6. After some googling, I found this

http://groups.google.de/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/bbb3eb44a1937025/284f610313fd6511

I have never tested this solution, but I think the probability of success 
might be higher using this one than forcing the operation of sfdisk :)

I also started a short discussion on this problem on this mailinglist:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai/20050817.120100/169726

MfG Holger Mense

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Universität Paderborn                      http://www.math.uni-paderborn.de
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