Mike:
This problem seems to crop up when you use linux fdisk as it is not so
assiduous about complete LBA cylinders as it might be.
I have found that Partition Magic (ver 5 or later) will do the job
properly - and Storm's installation seems to prefer partitions created
by PM (it is bundled with the commercial versions of Storm).
Erik
Mike Pfleger wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> The Storm installation complains about partitions on /dev/hda not ending
> on cylinder boundaries. I've tried a few things, outlined below, and
> can't seem to solve this problem. Other than the obvious; not using
> windoze ;)
>
> I have a fujitsu 20GB drive as hda, and I've tried to install Windoze98
> (work-related, no choice) to it. I initially used linux fdisk to
> partition it, leaving 4GB for windoze and chopping the rest up for two
> linux distros and swap. Annoyingly, the M$ fdisk sees the first
> partition as 508MB or so. So... since I'd not done the Linux
> installations yet, I nuked the partition table and let M$ put in the
> partition (actually I made it a little bigger in case of problems) for
> windoze. Now linux fdisk reports that this partitions does not end on
> cylinder boundaries, so I used fips.exe (came with SuSE) to resize the
> partition down to 4GB, and linux fdisk from hdb (this storm install) to
> add the other three partitions.
>
> I now get no complaints about cylinder boundaries when running fdisk
> /dev/hda from hdb. When I display the partition info, it appears as
> follows:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 8322 4194256+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 8323 8583 131544 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 8584 24149 7845264 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 24150 39714 7844760 83 Linux
>
> When I now try to install Storm to the drive from CD & floppies, the
> software complains that it can't use hda because partition 2 does not
> end on cylinder boundaries. It then advises contacting Stormix Help.
> -sigh
>
> Anybody have any suggestions? Anybody worked around this? I've done a
> quickie search of the archives (since the Storm2000 release date) and
> found nothing to help.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Mike
>
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