> Hi,
> 
> I'm using 3.1.8ubuntu1 with feisty (No ubuntu change touches the
> config parts of fai)
> 
> With the diskconfig file below (part1 is DellUtil vfat, part2 is Windows XP
> ntfs), fai computes way to high cylinder number (log below).
> 
> 
[...]
> 
> gives this in fai.log:
> 
> Mapping disk name disk1 to hda
> Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q  /dev/hda < 
> /var/log/fai/current/partition.hda
> Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
>   for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 116280/16/63).
> For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
> 
> sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed.
> (If you really want this, use the --force option.)
>
[...]

As the new disk configuration computed by sfdisk seems to be fine, you might
want to try the --force option, it did work for me in such cases - you've got
backups, don't you? :-)

No warranties,
Michael



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