The problem is that the linux partitions, any of which can be bootable,
lie beyond the 1024 cylinder boundary.
If you can find a way to get a small, 10-15MB, linux partition at the
front of the drive and label it as /boot, you should be fine.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Robin Atwood wrote:
> 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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