At 05:22 PM 3/27/99 -0500, zentara wrote:
>The booting partition can't "straddle" the 1024 cylinder limit
>from what I've read.
>
>If I were you I would make /dev/hda1 a 1 sector partition to
>mount /boot. Then divide the rest up anyway you want.
>/dev/hda1 will only be about 10 megs and surely won't straddle
>1024 cylinders.
Actually, the real problem is that fdisk doesn't want to let me
create any sort of partition that goes past cylinder 1024. Here's
the relevant info from YaST's partitioning screen:
At the top of the screen it says:
Fdisk detected the following hard drive geometry:
Disk /dev/hda 255 heads 63 sectors 1024 cylinders
One cylinder has 8225280 Bytes
But the table reads:
/dev/hda1 1 957 7687071 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 958 970 104442 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 971 1247 2225002 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
At this point I am unable, after deleting hda3, to create a
new partition in its place that ends past cylinder 1024.
I tried using fdisk in a new virtual console (using alt-F2 to
get there) but encountered the same problem there... I couldn't
create a partition that went past cylinder 1024.
As for /dev/hda1, that's currently my Win98 partition and I'd
prefer to keep it that way if at all possible.
Mike
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