To celebrate my new cable connection I thought I would try an FTP install of
Wolverine. However, it complained my 20GB disk had an incorrect geometry and
would not allow me to make a new partition on it. I always use cfdisk and
have never noticed any problems but when I tried fdisk I got the following:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2490.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 763 6126592+ 5 Extended
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(762, 185, 63) should be (762, 254, 63)
/dev/hdb2 * 763 959 1572984 82 Linux swap
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(958, 141, 63) should be (958, 254, 63)
/dev/hdb3 959 1089 1047784+ e Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 1 1 1953 78 Unknown
/dev/hdb6 1 16 124960+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb7 16 265 1999840+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb8 265 763 3999712+ 83 Linux
So who'se fault is this and what, if anything, do I do about it? And will I
be able to install a new RedHat?
TIA
-Robin.
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