-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rick Dooling wrote: > Hello, > > I had Windows XP on a ThinkPad T40. I used partition > magic 8 to create a 20 gig empty partition at the end > of logical drive E before installing Debian Etch. > > Installation went fine. I can boot to both Windows XP > and Debian. Everything appears to work fine, but I get > horrible warnings if I try to start partition magic. > > And when I run fdisk -l inside Debian Etch, > I get this: > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id > System > /dev/hda1 * 1 71835 36204808+ 7 > HPFS/NTFS > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda2 71836 110384 19428224 f > W95 Ext'd (LBA) > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda3 110384 155056 22515097+ 83 > Linux > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda5 71836 92160 10243768+ 7 > HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda6 92161 108360 8164768+ 7 > HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda7 108376 110384 1012063+ 82 > Linux swap / Solaris > > I don't care about running partition magic or dos > fdisk. I don't feel like repartitioning. Is it somehow > unstable if I just continue using mainly Etch and boot > occasionally into Windows for the odd program? > > On other threads I've seen people say that Linux > doesn't care about the cylinder boundaries. True, or > will I eventually have problems even if I don't > repartition?
AFAIK, everything will work fine. Quote from http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html >The Head value of CHS begin is not 0 or 1. PartitionMagic expects all >FAT, HPFS and NTFS partitions to start and end on cylinder boundaries. >(Comment: Windows NT on Alpha does not comply with this rule, and can >create partitions starting on arbitrary sectors. There is no known >operating system that requires this restriction. However, there exists >software that tries to guess the disk geometry by looking at the CHS >start and end values in a partition table. Note that with large disks >CHS values are entirely meaningless.) Still, I would recommend that you request your money back and use a decent free program like gparted to do the partitioning. Explain that the product is defective because it creates invalid partitions, and show them the error you see. - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGDBbRiXBCVWpc5J4RAlRzAKCbOgkvNxhAOvjmX54ez/XxsbL7RwCgpaxk tM2vm1K45kJdrBwnNs2Af/0= =rnyM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
