On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:10:21 -0800 Michael Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> fdisk -l shows this now: > > Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x74b860c1 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda2 192 19882 158165141 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 37729 38914 9512960 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda4 24981 37729 102398977 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 24981 37206 98190336 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 37206 37729 4207616 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > Partition table entries are not in disk order ======%<------ snip! ------>%====== > It seems to indicate that /dev/sda1 is an EISA partition, and > I'm not really clear on what that means or whether I actually > need it. My problem is that I wanted to try installing Arch > Linux and Arch uses cfdisk for the install. cfdisk doesn't > like the fact that /dev/sda1 doesn't end on a cylinder boundary > and it craps out with a fatal error, saying something about me > having illegal partitions (grrr). I submit that cfdisk is complaining about the partition limits, not the type ID of sda1. Note that the End & Start blocks of sda1 and sda2 are the same. The same holds true for sda4/sda3, sda5/sda6, and sda6/sda3. This is bad. Though you're not likely to ever reach the last block of a partition, it is possible. In which case, the starting block of the next partition would be overwritten, which would hose the whatever filesystem is resident in that partition. This could make for a very bad day indeed. (FWIW: A list of partition types I found on the web lists ID 27 as "'PQservice' -- Acer hidden rescue partition. Must be FAT32. Press Alt-F10 during boot to start this. Also other manufacturers use this type for their rescue partition." See <http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html>.) --Dale -- Q: How many IBM CPUs does it take to execute a job? A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
