On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Hi
> I just recently got a Dimension XPST600
> from Dell
>
> It has a 30Gb hd
> I used Partition Magic 4.0 to carve up this mammoth drive. Making sure
> there was a partition wholly under 1024 cylinders.
I really dont think that the size 30Gb is the problem, as the limit seems to be
(at the moment) 539Gb.
> I have tried Suse6.0/6.2 RedHat6.1 they all have a problem with invalid
> partition table.
>
> fdisk can't start /dev/hda but will run using fdisk /dev/hda1 my win98
> partition
> lots of stuff about boundaries.
Now if fdisk is moaning about boundaries then quite possably partition magic
has over written somewhere and thus all partitions will be considered corrupt.
By overwritten i mean started a partition at say 1022 when 1022 was the end of
the previous. it should be a stops at 1022 and b start at 1023.
Another thing which happens is your bios is autodetecting wrongly, by that i
mean on one bootup it assigns the disk as CHS=523/255/63 which in this case is
a 4Gb drive detected as LBA, then anther time it assigns a different cyls
count, Eg, this time normal mode, which can cause the problems you describe.
However what does your bios detect for the drive,?
What does demsg say about the drive,??
I am presuming you have a working system, as you seem to know one basic lilo
requirment, the <1024 cyls mark.
I presume you know that during an install you can leave (temporaly) the GUI
interface with ctrl-alt-F1 2 and i belive 3 (trail and error) different
distro's different console numbers, ctrl-alt does stay the same tho' in all
distro's, you can use a lot of different commands in the console mode to see
just what the disk is and how its been partitioned.
>
> I can also run fdisk /dev/hda2 my Linux partition.
>
> In the end I deleted all the partitions . Then created them from
> scratch. RedHat decided to
> call my /dev/hda2 partition /dev/hda5 and then hung trying to write my
> 96Mb swap fs.
>
> Can anyone give me pointers as to what is going on?
>
> Linux fdisk seems to be confused and so is the MS fdisk.
Well if you deleted them all and started over how can MSdos (i presume you mean
msdos) have a problem.?? or do you mean you deleted only the linux partitions
and left the dos partition, if that is the case then the problem might still
occur as that partition is possably corrupt as well.
I rather think the overall answer is going to be that something went wrong when
you used partition magic.
Now if i remember correctly if one uses a floppy to save the disk params before
altering the partition table, partition magic can return the disk to its
origanal state. You did use a floppy did'nt you.??
>
> TIA
>
> Martin Sarosi
>
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