> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:32 -0600 (CST)
> From: Zaigui Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I have a 13G hard disk. When I use linux fdisk to do the partitions, it
> seems like the maximun cylinder number allowed is 1024, which ends up with
> only about 8G. Where does the rest of the disk go? How to fix this
> problem?
>
> Thanks.
I ran into this once when setting up Linux on a friend's computer. I
believe the problem was that the bios and fdisk had/saw different
representations for the # of cylinders, heads and sectors (I think I
got the terminology correct). Anyway, what I did was look at what the
BIOS said those three values were and then went into fdisk's expert
mode and told it to use those three numbers as the geometry and
everything worked fine. Also, make certain the partition that holds
the /boot is entirely under cylinder 1024 (make a small /boot
partition that starts and ends at values less than 1024).
Dave
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