I've got a 6.4 GB fujitsu drive that I am trying partition. Actually, I had it partitioned, formatted (no reported errors), and file system from an old disk transferred to it. However, I made it the master after the fs transfer, and was using a rescue floppy to boot, mount all the partitions and set up LILO, but LILO setup failed with:
Device 0X0300: Invalid partition table, 3rd entry 3D address: 1/0/78 (73710) linear address: 55/11/21 (20592) fdisk reported the first four partitions not ending on cylinder boundaries. Also, the beginning, starting and ending cylinders are all wonky. Eg., begin start end type size part 1 1 1 11 native 5M part 2 40 11 22 native 5M part 3 79 22 239 native 100M part 4 855 239 2859 extendd rest of disk part 5 855 239 889 native 300M part 6 1024 889 1539 native 300M part 7 1024 1539 2189 native 300M part 8 2024 2189 2623 native 200M So, v (verify) gives all kinds of errors (end of cylinders not on boundaries, bad start of data, partitions overlapping). I deleted all the partitions and started over which fixed up the beginning cylinders on parts 1-4 but not the rest. ( I didn't write the partition table so I still have the old setup) QUESTIONS: 1) Does this matter ? (apparently it does to LILO) I was able to mke2fs -c all partitions no problem, and copy over the old file system. and if it does matter, 2a) Anyone know what is causing this ? 2b) " " " I can do to fix it ? I suspect this might be a logical/physical geometry thing. Linux required me to explicitly state the physical geometry of a 1.2 Gig Seagate (now a paper weight) before it would install on it. However, I have a Western Digital 3.1 Gig in another box that Linux happily installed on without the physical parameters. All help appreciated. Thanks, Gerald -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null