Unable to align partition properly

[Gilles Foucault]

First of all, I did not manage to get an interresting output
with the command " parted /dev/hda print" since parted gives me the
following error :

Alerte: 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.
Ignorer Abandonner ? i
Erreur: Unable to align partition.

So gnu parted is not able to do anything on my computer, and RedHat Linux 7.2
is not installable too because diskdruid uses parted and does not work at all...

It would be great that some developer solve the problem ...

Here are some information (command output) about my hard drive /dev/hda :
#  fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2495.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Commande (m pour aide) : p

Disque /dev/hda : 255 têtes, 63 secteurs, 2495 cylindres
Unités = cylindres sur 16065 * 512 octets

Périphérique Amorce    Début       Fin    Blocs   Id  Système
/dev/hda1   *         1         9     72261   82  Echange Linux
/dev/hda2            10      2421  19374390    5  Etendue
/dev/hda5            10        12     24066   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            13        76    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            77       331   2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda8           332       459   1028128+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9           460       464     40131   83  Linux
/dev/hda10          465       497    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda11          498      2027  12289693+  83  Linux
/dev/hda12         2028      2129    819283+  83  Linux
/dev/hda13         2130      2162    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda14         2163      2193    248976   83  Linux
/dev/hda15         2194      2195     16033+  82  Echange Linux
/dev/hda16         2196      2360   1325331   83  Linux
/dev/hda17         2361      2436    610438+  83  Linux

Commande (m pour aide) : q

# cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry 
physical     39770/16/63
logical      2495/255/63

# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings
name                    value           min             max             mode
----                    -----           ---             ---             ----
bios_cyl                2495            0               65535           rw
bios_head               255             0               255             rw
bios_sect               63              0               63              rw
breada_readahead        4               0               127             rw
bswap                   0               0               1               r
current_speed           68              0               69              rw
failures                0               0               65535           rw
file_readahead          0               0               2097151         rw
ide_scsi                0               0               1               rw
init_speed              12              0               69              rw
io_32bit                1               0               3               rw
keepsettings            0               0               1               rw
lun                     0               0               7               rw
max_failures            1               0               65535           rw
max_kb_per_request      127             1               127             rw
multcount               0               0               8               rw
nice1                   1               0               1               rw
nowerr                  0               0               1               rw
number                  0               0               3               rw
pio_mode                write-only      0               255             w
slow                    0               0               1               rw
unmaskirq               1               0               1               rw
using_dma               0               0               1               rw

# cat /proc/ide/hda/model           
WDC WD205BA

Thank you for your help,

Gilles

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