Wow! Excellent. I troed a number of things, but not expert :)
All I ended up doing was deleting the partitions and recreating them. For
some reason the newly created partitions *did* end on a cylinder
boundry. I'm assuming some change has occured in fdisk.
I had one strange thing happen - which probably isn't related to this, but
occured during this fiasco - my win98 wouldn't boot anymore, complaining
himem.sys was missing (it was there). It seems to be a common problem
after installing antivirus software, and a device= line in my config.sys
fixed it. funny though.
Anyway, glad you solved this without starting from scratch.
Now if I could only get my X working again :)
charles
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Geoffrey Knauth wrote:
> I had this problem on upgrading my laptop from RH7.0 to RH7.1:
>
> An error occurred reading the partition table for the block
> device hda. The error was:
>
> Partition(s) do not end on cylinder boundary
>
> This occurs because the drive geometry detected by the kernel
> used by the installer is
> different that 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.
>
> In all my previous updates, I never had this problem. I noticed Charles
> Galpin had a similar problem from his 2 redhat-list messages with the
> subject line, "Redhat 7.1/kernel 2.4.2 & disk geometry on boot."
>
> Like him, I was wondering what C/H/S values I should use. I've seen
> different values, 16383/16/63 and 33521/16/63.
>
> Not exactly knowing what to do, I tried the "expert" option when booting
> RH7.1 CD1, expecting to have to enter something special at some point.
>
> Well lo and behold, I really didn't have to enter anything special at
> all. This time anaconda figured out the geometry of /dev/hda OK and
> proceeded with the rest of package selection and installing software,
> instead of bombing out with the error message I noted at the top.
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