I'm virtually certain re-writing the partition table is going to require a reboot.
BTW, over the years I've had several drives with the "over 1024" cylinder message, and it has never been a problem with many versions of linux, including Gentoo, so that shouldn't be a problem using any modern distro. Robert Crawford On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:36 am, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall gentoo, after serious troubles due to hd failure > (I fear) or filesystem corruption (I hope). So, I booted Knoppix and I'm > trying to repartition hda. I deleted all partitions and tried to save > changes, before making new partitions. Problem is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk /dev/hda > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9733. > 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., old versions of LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > Command (m for help): w > The partition table has been altered! > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > > WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: > Device or resource busy. > The kernel still uses the old table. > The new table will be used at the next reboot. > Syncing disks. > > > Rebooting is not an option, since I'm working remote through ssh. > > BTW: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount > /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro) > /dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro) > /ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=813616k) > /UNIONFS on /UNIONFS type unionfs > (rw,noatime,dirs=/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro) > /UNIONFS/dev/pts on /UNIONFS/dev/pts type devpts (rw) > /proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0666) > automount(pid2703) on /mnt/auto type autofs > (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2703,minproto=2,maxproto=4) > /UNIONFS/dev/hdb5 on /mnt/hdb5 type ext3 (rw) > > So, what went wrong? And is there any way to force use of the new table, > other than rebooting? > -- > Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
