y31415926536 (Czerno) wrote on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 1:13 PM
>
> So... I have Ranish 2.43 [...]
> was asked to create two new ext3 parts from unused space
> inside the existing extended and put PCLOS onto the hard
> disk. It proceeded successfully as far as I can tell, but
>
> ... when the 'puter was rebooted, Ranish (MBR) complained
> that there were new partitions (so far so good) which it
> would not import because they overlapped

Are you using the "more than 4 partitions" feature? (that is, having
"hidden partitions" which are registered inside RPM tables but not in
the normal places (MBR and EMBR)

If you do (and I guess you does), you should compare the printout of the
layout _before_ installing the new OS (you did print it out, right?),
with the layout now reported by RPM. You should see that some cylinders
are used for some hidden system you installed before, and also used for
the new ext3fs partitions you just created; that's what RPM means with
overlapping...
If you cannot sort it out yourself, post both lists here.

If you did not print it out before, run
part -p -r >rpm.prn
(from some DOS prompt, using yours 2.43) and copy the result here, we'll
see what we can do...


> What is the way to (safely) check what Ranish is displeased
> with and (assuming no need to worry) tell it to import the
> newly laid out partitions, so it can offer to boot from the new OS ?

Well, if it is what I suspect, I do not know exactly how you can solve
it *easily* now; my guess is that you should erase the traces of the
former, now overlapped, partitions (which does not exist anymore on the
disk, OK?); then create yourself the new entries for the new partitions
(since I guess RPM won't let you "import" then automatically...)


Antoine