Unable to align partition properly

[Morten Welinder]

Can anyone make sense of this?  It looks like parted cannot see my ext2
partition.  Ick.

Morten



address@hidden:/home/welinder/parted-1.4.11 > parted/parted 
GNU Parted 1.4.11
...
Using /dev/hda
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 527/255/63.
You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this program.
(parted) print
Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that another
partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have
the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore Cancel ? ignore
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-4134.375 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031   2047.346  primary               
2       2047.377   4094.692  primary   FAT         boot
(parted) quit


address@hidden:/home/welinder/parted-1.4.11 > fdisk /dev/hda

Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1       261   2096451   83  Linux
/dev/hda2   *       262       522   2096451    6  FAT16

Command (m for help): x

Expert command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
 1 00   1   1    0 254  63  260       63  4192902 83
 2 80   1   1  261 254  63  521  4193028  4192902 06
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0        0        0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0        0        0 00

Expert command (m for help): q