Thanks. I will try this out.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Dave Reed wrote:
> > 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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