No, no ... a "+" at the end of a block count means that the
partition does not end on a cylinder boundary, i.e. there are
an odd number of sectors. This is not harmful and linux isn't
even aware of it but you do lose a couple of sectors as
unallocatable space at the end of the partition. Then again,
what's 100KB lost in a 10GB drive.
By the way, I've been following the thread and I don't have
any technical suggestions to add (I'm stumped) but I just have
to ask a stupid question. Don't take this the wrong way, you
seem like an intellegent, knowledgable user, but ... did you
take the Debian CDrom out of the drive befor rebooting? I've
done it to myself enough times now, I'm no longer mystified
when RedHat wants to start a new installation right after I've
just finished installing.
Adrian
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT mime@CCMAIL
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT mime@CCMAIL (bcc: Adrian
D Jensen/RWS/Raytheon/US)
Subject: Re: LILO won't boot from my notebook
> I don't have such BIOS functions available. My BIOS just says
that I > have a 2 GB hard disc. That's all. I can't change
anything.
Too bad.
Whether you can solve this or not, you might want to upgrade
your BIOS :-)
> > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
System
> > > > /dev/hda1 * 1 3 12064+ 83 Linux
> > > > /dev/hda2 4 36 133056 82 Linux
swap
> > > > /dev/hda3 37 525 1971648 83 Linux
Last try:
the 12064 has a `+' behind it. That's not good. As you might
know, the number of cylinders is fake, to fool the BIOS. fdisk
has other ways of counting allocated space on the disk (don't
ask me what or how). The `+' means a mismatch.
You might try the End at 2 (instead of 3) and see whether the
`+' disappears. If so, rerun LILO and try to boot again.
I have seen a trick like this working with a root partition.
Good luck!
PS: I believe it should disappear when you change from 3 to 2.
If not, try 4 (and decrease your swap partition size). There is
some old docs that tell about those mismatches, but I can't
remember where :-(
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