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Re: parted malfunctioning on an older disk ? 500Mo limit related ?
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: parted malfunctioning on an older disk ? 500Mo limit related ? |
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Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:50:49 +1100 |
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:11:41PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> But parted doesn't like it because of :
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> Using /dev/ide/host0...
> No implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.
> Need to add support for this.
> Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/...
> is 4092/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M
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> This was after having added a two partitions (cyl 1 to 496 and cyl 497
> to end_of_disk) with the debian-installer stuff.
It looks like you have a pc98 (not msdos) partition table.
On pc98 (at the time this code was written), the BIOS/Linux worked
together nicely to get this info reliably.
Cheers,
Andrew