Michael Curry wrote: > > At 05:22 PM 3/27/99 -0500, zentara wrote: > >The booting partition can't "straddle" the 1024 cylinder limit > >from what I've read. > Actually, the real problem is that fdisk doesn't want to let me > create any sort of partition that goes past cylinder 1024. Here's > the relevant info from YaST's partitioning screen: > As for /dev/hda1, that's currently my Win98 partition and I'd > prefer to keep it that way if at all possible. Partition Magic lets you move things around and create a little space at the beginning of a drive. I do remember having a similar problem with a big hard drive, where yast and fdisk complained about not being able to do what I asked. It turned out to be the "Drive Rocket" or other similar bios adaptor software . This usually gets installed on any windows machines with big drives. I had to use a floppy boot disk which contained the bios adaptor software, then disable it. It is actually an electronic switch on the hard drive electronics, from what I remember. Then I went back into linux fdisk, and could do exactly what I wanted, with no "error messages" about cylinders. All I needed was LBA chosen for the drive in the motherboard bios. -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
