Hi
I have a laptop which I used fips to create a linux partition on years
ago. When I did this, the partitions did not end on cylinder boundries,
but everything worked fine so I never worried about it.
It has run several versions of linux (up to 7.0 beta) fine.
Now, when running the 7.1 installer, it fails with this error
"An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device
hda. The error was:
Partition(s) do not end on cylinder boundry.
This occurs because the drive geometry detected by the kernel used by the
installer is different than the drive geometry used when the drive was
partitioned. this can be corrected by specifying the drive geometry on the
kernel command line when booting the installer."
and fails. A lovely descriptive error message though.
However, despite this very clear message, I cannot seem to give the
correct geometry to the installer to make it happy.
I have tried various attempts such as
linux hda=839,240,63
linux hda=1023,239,63
etc. with no change. Can anyone identify the C,H,S I should be using to
get this to work?
Here is what fdisk reports:
Normal:
Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 278 2101648+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 279 768 3703927+ 83 Linux
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(278, 0, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(767, 224, 63)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
/dev/hda3 805 820 115290 5 Extended
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(804, 0, 1)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(819, 59, 63)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
/dev/hda4 821 838 136080 a0 IBM Thinkpad hibernation
/dev/hda5 805 820 115258+ 82 Linux swap
Expert:
Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 80 1 1 0 239 63 277 63 4203297 0b
2 00 14 63 1023 14 63 1023 4203360 7407855 83
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(278, 0, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(767, 224, 63)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
3 00 14 63 1023 14 63 1023 12156480 230580 05
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(804, 0, 1)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(819, 59, 63)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
4 00 0 1 820 239 63 837 12398400 272160 a0
5 00 14 63 1023 14 63 1023 63 230517 82
thanks
charles
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