Hi When I try to do a new Install of Cooker I come to DiskDrake and then it says that I may only continue on my own risk, because it is not secure about the partition table. I have an 'IBM DTLA-307030 of 30 GB. So I downloaded and ran the IBM hard drive test to the Advanced level and it found nothing to report. I have checked the BIOS and it is the latest one. I turned off the AUTO utility in BIOS and manually entered the relevant data from the hard drive: CHS 16383/16/63. Which is supposed to mean no of cylinders/heads/sectors per track. I installed a Debian, which liked the partition table and gave CHS 59560/16/63. >From dmesg in Mdk8.0 I have: CHS 59560/16/63 But here is probably the answer: [root@Archimedes guran]# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3737 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/hda2 6 85 642600 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 86 3737 29334690 5 Extended /dev/hda5 86 946 6915951 83 Linux /dev/hda6 947 1589 5164866 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1590 2234 5180931 83 Linux /dev/hda8 2235 2878 5172898+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2879 3737 6899886 83 Linux Something is weird here. regards guran -- Mandrake 8.0 kernel-2.4.7-12.3
