Kenneth: > Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l /dev/sda > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 34 273073 83 Linux > > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > > According to this thread [1], this happens when you tell fdisk to > partition a disk using "megabytes" instead of "cylinders". Sometimes > the number of megabytes does not equal an integral number of cylinders. > This in itself is supposedly not a problem, as long as the partition > starts cleanly on a "cylinder". Ending on a "cylinders" is not. > > When you boot up, what is the exact error message the system is giving you?
I ran gpart and then testdisk and both of those helped clean up the partition table. The REASON though, I found that it was not booting up, after running those tools on this drive, came down to the SATA controller. I thought the controller was the trouble, so I bought another and it happened to be made by the same people at Silicon Image. Anyway, it would hang right at the same spot. I thought, change the controller back to the original, which had worked over a year...and it booted right up. Since then I have had to run fsck.ext3 on various partitions to clean them up, but it appears it is working well now. I still have to contact Silicon Image and find out why their newer card would disallow this drive from booting. Thanks for your help, Scott
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