On: 17 Jun 1998 23:17:51 +0900 Yamamoto Hirotaka writes:
>
> "Mark H. Mabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and I
Martin> have a 8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders
Martin> 784. Those are not near any 1024 limit.
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"Mark H. Mabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin> Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and
> Martin> I have a 8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders
> Martin> 784. Those are not near any 1024 limit.
>
>
> Yes, LBA is enabled in the BIOS.
I know I'm askin
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Str|mberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:05:24 +0200
Mark> I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my
Mark> Dell P-II 400. This is an EIDE drive. When
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
:
: I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
: 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
: I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
: number of sectors to 1024.
I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
number of sectors to 1024. Mine should have 1227 (approx).
When I boot Lin
the "2". I assume
this last step undoes "fdisk /mbr".
Now the only remaining clue: the hard disk in wolf has previously seen
temporary dos service in a more modern computer that had things like LBA
which I think it used (not that the full GB of disk became available in
dos).
> > Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
> > wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
> > If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
> I don't know if it is legal have multiple partitions marked as ac
> Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
> wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
> If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
>
I don't know if it is legal have multiple partitions marked as active but if I
u
>If you are going to use linux with that drive then you must use NORMAL
>mode. I noticed that number of heads affect how much DOS FDISK says size
>to be use. This drive have only 9 heads and lots of cylinders, so 1024
>cylinders mean only 283 MB room for DOS. My another drive have 15 heads
>and the
You probably have an old BIOS. Old bios is known not to recognize HD over
528M, unless special measures, such as LBA, are incoperated.
Besides, I think that DOS would not recognize a partition that is over 2.1G.
I use Linux with a HD that the BIOS sees as LBA.
Does all this BIOS/DOS problems are
You provided the following partition table:
>Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 63 63 13097665457 82 Linux Swap
> /dev/hdc2 * 130977 130977 2588354 1228689 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdc32322431 2588355 6684
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Helmut Leinfellner wrote:
> Here's a little more detail:
>
> At startup the BIOS recognizes the size of the first drive on the primary
> controller correctly (519 MB), the second drive is a CD-ROM, and the first
> drive on the second primary controller is another hard-disk, t
5535 14847 63 LARGE
I'm running LILO. Maybe DOS FDISK is confused because Lilo rewrote the MBR ?
Here's what cfdisk prints:
==
# Type 1st Sec LastSec Offset Length Filysystem TypeFlags
1 Primary0 130976 63 130977 Linux Swap
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 Helmut Leinfellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi there !
>
> I've partitioned my hard drive with fdisk / cfdisk this way:
>
> Pri 1 Linux Swap (64 MB)
> Pri 2 Linux native (1200 MB)
> Pro 3 DOS (2 GB)
^^^- Should this be "Pri
Hi there !
I've partitioned my hard drive with fdisk / cfdisk this way:
Pri 1 Linux Swap (64 MB)
Pri 2 Linux native (1200 MB)
Pro 3 DOS (2 GB)
Pri 4 Extended DOS (4-part. 800 MB)
When I verify with fdisk it (correctly!) tells me that partition 3 starts
WITHIN partition 2 !
As a consequence
Hello. I'm not actually subscribed to the list, so if you can help me,
please reply to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . That out of the way,
I need some help with CFDISK. What I did was I installed made two
partitions on a 2.1 GB drive, each the same size, 1.05GB. They both us
k (no matter if it's set as primary or secondary or the other
disks is plugged or not)
dos's fdisk does not see the partition.
cfdisk /dev/hdb sees the partition, but it writes
DOS FAT16 (big) [^D9] (I know, ^D9 is the disk label... it's funny)
mount cann't mount the partition.
I had some problems like this, where fdisk and cfdisk could no longer deal
with my disk. I posted somewhere and this wonderful fellow
A. E. Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
answered. He wrote fdisk3 . Some times it can read broken tables , get
the good info and spit out a clean one. It worked
butch wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any
> ways to correct or edit partition errors?
>
> allan
Few months ago, I tried using cfdisk to set the linux partition (>2GB),
and both linux and msdos fdisk denied to run
hi,
i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any
ways to correct or edit partition errors?
allan
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit fdisk vs cfdisk question.]
: Now I have /home on a very large separate primary partition, and /usr/local
: on another fairly large partition. However, I linked /usr/src to the
: directory (in a logical partition mounted as
specifying LBA), Linux recognized it ok.
Fdisk didn't want to partition this disk according to my wishes.
Repeatably, fdisk wanted to allocate only 1024 cylinders to a partition.
However cfdisk did it just as I wanted it, and graphically. Is this a bug
in fdisk? A feature?
Now I have /home on a
partition)
950 MB Windows NT (primary partition)
I created the DOS primary partition and 800 MB extended
partition (with 250 MB DOS logical drive) using MS-DOS
FDISK, installed lots of DOS-ish stuff, backed up everything,
and forged ahead with the Debian install.
cfdisk let me add /dev/sda6
On 23 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 .
I had it on 1.2.5 (LSL tri-linux cd-rom).
Bob
Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 .
Today I downloaded the 1.2 boot disks (dated Feb97) tried to install in a
Quatum HD, and cfdisk has that problem `can't fseek...'. fdisk worked.
The disk was in a
Never mind. I see the cast patch and I'll make sure that gets included.
Thanks
Bruce
You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 .
Bruce
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Michael Iles wrote:
[spip] referring to cfdisk w/ disks > 2G
>
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive
>
After a suggestion on the BUG report system i have put the cast (ext2_loff_t)
at two places in the source file. It seems to work now. Specialists p
o I assume
Michael> it can see the drive.
Michael> What's going on here? Can anyone help me on this?
I had exactly the same problem installing onto that type of drive. I
had to escape to a shell and use "fdisk" to partition the drive rather
than "cfdisk". It seems
wap
> partition. When I tried to save these changes, though, I got a message saying
>
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive
>
> Every subsequent time I try to start cfdisk, I immediately get the same
> message about not being able to seek, so now I can't even see t
though, I got a message saying
FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive
Every subsequent time I try to start cfdisk, I immediately get the same message
about not being able to seek, so now I can't even see the partition information.
I can run DOS fdisk and make changes to the partition info
stall.html, how im heaven can
poeple go on with the first very important tool broken: cfdisk.
A big warning was there about my last chance to backup/ first
to sweep out my disk.
I had already partitioned the 3.1MB of the fireball, so i needed
only to change the type of a partition to swap. But the
Thanks for the advice. I essentially planned on moving everything
I wanted to keep under some directory under / and wipe out the other
directories. i.e remove the file system.
BTW, I seem to be getting two copies of posts, including yours.
Also, I am curious as to why there is no `Reply to' fiel
You don't have to use cfdisk, but you _do_ have to wipe out the filesystem.
Various people have reported some success with installing Debian _over_
Slackware, but if you do that there will be files left behind from the old
system that will never be cleaned up, etc. We don't support up
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Walter Tautz wrote:
Hi Walter,
> by slackware. I take it that one can skip the `initialization' step and
> simply use the existing partitions or is it advised that I repartition
> using cfdisk?
There is no immediate need for repartitioning with cfdisk.
If
tion using
cfdisk?
I want to retain certain files simply for convenience and because
I don't have a tape backup system. Note: I HAVE BACKED
UP CRITICAL FILES VIA FLOPPY TO ANOTHER SYSTEM.
-Walter
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I am trying to install Debian Linux 1.1 on my 486/80, 12meg RAM, 1.3gig
SCSI HD, DTC3280 SCSI controller. After booting off my boot (Linux
kernal 2.0.0) and root floppies and getting to the cfdisk 0.8d BETA, I
run into problems. I try setting up some partitions and Write the table,
it
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