Anyone have any suggestions on how to figure out what geometry I need to
feed the kernel in this case?
tia
charles
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Charles Galpin wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a laptop which I used fips to create a linux partition on years
> ago. When I did this, the partitions did not end on cylinder boundries,
> but everything worked fine so I never worried about it.
>
> It has run several versions of linux (up to 7.0 beta) fine.
>
> Now, when running the 7.1 installer, it fails with this error
>
> "An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device
> hda. The error was:
>
> Partition(s) do not end on cylinder boundry.
>
> This occurs because the drive geometry detected by the kernel used by the
> installer is different than the drive geometry used when the drive was
> partitioned. this can be corrected by specifying the drive geometry on the
> kernel command line when booting the installer."
>
> and fails. A lovely descriptive error message though.
>
> However, despite this very clear message, I cannot seem to give the
> correct geometry to the installer to make it happy.
>
> I have tried various attempts such as
>
> linux hda=839,240,63
> linux hda=1023,239,63
>
> etc. with no change. Can anyone identify the C,H,S I should be using to
> get this to work?
>
>
> Here is what fdisk reports:
>
> Normal:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 278 2101648+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 279 768 3703927+ 83 Linux
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(278, 0, 1)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(767, 224, 63)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
> /dev/hda3 805 820 115290 5 Extended
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(804, 0, 1)
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(819, 59, 63)
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
> /dev/hda4 821 838 136080 a0 IBM Thinkpad hibernation
> /dev/hda5 805 820 115258+ 82 Linux swap
>
> Expert:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders
>
> Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
> 1 80 1 1 0 239 63 277 63 4203297 0b
> 2 00 14 63 1023 14 63 1023 4203360 7407855 83
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(278, 0, 1)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(767, 224, 63)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
> 3 00 14 63 1023 14 63 1023 12156480 230580 05
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(804, 0, 1)
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) logical=(819, 59, 63)
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 14, 63) should be (1023, 239, 63)
> 4 00 0 1 820 239 63 837 12398400 272160 a0
> 5 00 14 63 1023 14 63 1023 63 230517 82
>
> thanks
> charles
>
>
>
>
>
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