From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Mon 10 May 1999 - 11:30:19 IST
This is a problem with DOS (read M$) fdisk utils, they do not sector align
I think, I got the same style of problem last night on my PC,
These are not problems as long as nothing else complains ..
Lilo may give problems you may need to add fix-table to the lilo.conf
Dave.
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Lennon, Conor wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed SuSE 6.0 recently
> I have a 100 Mhz 586 with 32MB RAM and two 10 Gig Hard Disks
> MS Windows 95 is installed on the first Disk and Linux is installed on
> the second Disk
>
> 'df -k' procduces the following output:
>
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1 1014784 777537 184808 81% /
> /dev/hdb8 3017520 2361431 500027 83% /usr
> /dev/hdb5 1014784 1934 960411 0% /home
> /dev/hdb9 2035638 1184638 745775 61% /usr2
>
> As part of the initial installation I set up '/', '/usr' and '/home'.
> I set up '/usr2' afterwards.
>
> When I run fdisk and type 'p' I get this:
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 63 2097647 1048792+ 83 Linux native
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hdb2 2097648 20044079 8973216 5 Extended
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hdb5 2097711 4195295 1048792+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdb6 4325392 4588415 131512 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb7 4588480 4851503 131512 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb8 4851568 11094047 3121240 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdb9 11100915 15309944 2104515 83 Linux native
>
>
>
> Is there any way to fix these problems without deleting the partitions?
> Given that fdisk knows what the wrong values should be, can it fix the
> problems?
>
> I have Partition Magic 4, but when I run the programme in MS Windows, it
> does not appear to give a accurate view of the Second Disk, probably
> because of the errors.
>
>
>
>
> Regards
> Conor Lennon
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>
>
>
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