On Mon, 1 May 2000, Mayuresh A Kathe wrote:
->When I tried to install Linux on a friends machine I got the following
->message while doing fdisk during install.
->
->The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2227.
->This is larger than 1024 and may cause problems with:
->1) Software that runs at boot time (eg LILO)
->2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (eg DOS FDISK, OS/2
-> FDISK)
Make sure that the boot partition (/boot) partition exists within the
limit of 1024 cyl limit. The rest of the partitions can be anywhere,
they can also be on other hardisks.
This waring message will come whenever you run fdisk.
Nagarjuna
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