On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, rick wrote: : I'm helping a friend set up Debian as a firewall/router for his : LAN. Troubles with the partition table or BIOS or something. : : fdisk sez: : : /root# fdisk /dev/hda : : Command (m for help): p : : Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 823 cylinders : Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes : : Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System : /dev/hda1 1 82 82120+ 82 Linux swap : Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: : phys=(162, 15, 63) logical=(81, 15, 63) : Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: : phys=(162, 15, 63) should be (162, 31, 63) : /dev/hda2 * 82 824 747936 83 Linux : Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): : phys=(163, 0, 1) logical=(81, 16, 1) : Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: : phys=(821, 15, 63) logical=(823, 15, 63) : Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: : phys=(821, 15, 63) should be (821, 31, 63) : : We also formatted and mounted a second drive, cp -ax over /, : and fdisk says samilar things when that drive is installed : as hda. Seems to me the trouble is with lilo and perhaps something : it's using in /boot (boot.b?) to write the MBR. Lilo is : writing to the MBR of /hda rather than writing to hda2 and making the : second partition active with fdisk because lilo says it : can't write to hda2 because physical \= logical beginning : of the partition.
[ snip ] 1) Enable/Disable LBA in BIOS 2) Delete partitions 1 & 2 using fdisk and re-create 3) Use expert mode of fdisk to get BIOS and fdisk to agree on CHS. HTH, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
