On 2010/07/29 22:26, Fabrice Dubois wrote: > I'm stuck on the fdisk, it shows me nonsense I just don't understand or... > So, I am sending this to bug, but I am not on a position to know if that's > really a bug or what.
It's not a bug. > Do you wish to edit in CHS mode? [n] y > BIOS Starting cylinder [0 - 82593] : [0] > BIOS Starting head [0 - 3]: [0] 1 > BIOS Starting sector [1 - 869]: [64] 1 > BIOS Ending cylinder [0 - 82593]: [47141] 10199 > BIOS Ending head [0 - 3]: [1] 254 > '254' is out of range. > BIOS Ending head [0 - 3]: [1] > > I just can't continue... > > There goes what I've done with the SATA HD which 4.7 i386 installed > correctly and fdisk showed correct numbers: > > C H S C H S > 0 1 1 10199 254 63 OpenBSD > 10200 0 1 12749 254 58 OS/2 hidden > 12750 0 1 15299 254 63 NTFS > 15300 0 1 36480 254 63 Extended LBA > > BIOS Starting cylinder [0 - 36480] : [0] > BIOS Starting head [0 - 254] : [1] > BIOS Starting sector [1 - 63] : [1] > BIOS Ending cylinder [0 - 36480] : [10199] > BIOS Ending head [0 - 254] : [254] > BIOS Ending sector [1 - 63] : [63] You worked out values that are correct for the disk geometry of one particular drive. Now you are trying to use the exact same values on another drive with different geometry. You need to recalculate the values.
