Remember the other day when I lost hde on linux.nf? I had to shrink /dev/hda3
and split it into hda3 and hda4. All was great...
Or so I thought. It seems that in doing so, the tranlsations for the disk
geometry got messed up somewhere. The drive is a:
Maxtor 53073U6, 29311Mb w/2048Kb cache.
The BIOS is set for 'auto' and report a CHS of 1024/255/63
I use the latest lilo, and use lba32.
The kernel says the drive has a CHS of 3736/255/63
I have to boot lilo with 'hda=1024,255,63' to get the machine to be usable.
a cat of /proc/ide/id0/hda says the physical layout is 16383/16/63
The drive is broken into hda[1-4]
running 'hdparm /dev/hda' gets 'HDIO_GETGEO_BIG failed: Input/output error'
fdisk /dev/hda says
'The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3736. This could in certain
setups cause problems.'
cfdisk says 3736 cylinders, 255 head, 63 sectors/track
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 1272 1273- 10225341 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1273+ 1306- 33- 262584 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 1306+ 2677- 1371- 11010216+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 2677+ 3735 1059- 8505419+ 83 Linux
running parted says:
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 3736/255/63.
Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. You should check that this
matches
the BIOS geometry before using this program.
running 'verify parition table' from within fdisk says:
11717 unallocated sectors
running 'sfdisk -d /dev/hda >hda.out && sfdisk /dev/hda <hda.out' says
sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed.
somewhere in there I also got a message stating that some other paritioning
tool had incorrectly setup the partitions.
advice? please?
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