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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Kingsly John wrote:
> [root@utopia mbr]# strings mbr.hdb
> 8,| u
> VVRP
> tInvalid partition table. Setup cannot continue.
> Error loading operating system. Setup cannot continue.
Probably left from the installation of OS, maybe linux.
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(61, 15, 63) should be (61, 254, 63)
This is probably due to wrong settings of the harddrive during
partition. I think you have not configured your hard drive in the LBA mode
in BIOS. It had the normal geometry at the time of partition, so the
partition ended on 16th head (0 to 15 == 16).
> --snip from dmesg--
> hdb: 40011300 sectors (20486 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=39693/16/63, UDMA(66)
> --snip from dmesg--
> hdb: [PTBL] [2490/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11
> hdb12 >
> --snip from dmesg--
I am not sure but feel that your drive is still configured in
normal access mode. That is why it is showing 39693 cylinders
initially. Probably linux later accesses it in LBA mode and this is why it
shows 2490 cylinders.
I would suggest you change the Hard drive parameters in BIOS to
LBA mode.
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