I've asked this before, but I'm still confused. I have a 17.2gb maxtor which the bios reports as 31930 cyl, 16 h, and 63 s. Fdisk (ver 2.9g or whatever came with slink) reports 1024 c, 255 h, 63 s (which adds up to 8.4gb). I was able to partition the drive using the installer from stormix (which was probably a tcl or perl script front end to sfdisk). Now when I run fdisk (after having installed debian) I get the message that partitions overlap.
Fdisk also reports that the final cy is about 2100 (I forget the exact number) which implies that some translation is happening. My concern is that the "/" partition starts below cy 1024 and ends above 1024. Lilo current works fine, but may break in the future if I add a new kernel and the image gets written above logical cyl 1024. The large disk how to implies that this cy, head, sec mapping is really history with large disks as what is now supplied is just a logical block number. fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk still seem to rely on c,h,s numbers however. I don't know if my bios set up is giving me the real physical layout of the disk or a translation. SO... do I need a newer version of fdisk (is there a slink version of what is in potato?). How do I correctly partition such a large IDE disk. I feel that I need to have a small "/boot" partition at the begining of the disk to hold the kernel boot image, but if lilo can use the extended LBA mode this might not be necessary. Does anyone understand what is really going on? Thanks in advance for any help. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
