From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Subject: Re: weird fdisk on slackware bootdisk Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 13:12:36 GMT
In article <276fum$6jf@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>
>... The fdisk used on
>the Slackware bootdisk is one I compiled from the latest sources in
>/pub/linux/sources/sbin on tsx-11.mit.edu. It is version 1.4, and is
>newer than the ones I've seen with SLS (I think it uses fdisk 1.1
>alpha).
>
>Have other people experienced trouble with this version of fdisk?
No trouble, but it sure does whine and complain a lot!
My drive pretends to have 2034 cylinders, and fdisk 1.4 gives repeated
warnings about logical.ne.physical parameters for partitions above the
invisible 1024cyl "barrier". If I didn't know better (and I do), I'd panic
and wonder what to do to use a disk over 1024cyl. Perhaps we should get
the maintainer of fdisk1.4 to add a check to remove those warnings for linux
native partitions, possibly replacing them by a more sensible "note" about
bootable kernel images having to reside within the first 1024cyls.
-- mlord@bnr.ca Mark Lord BNR Ottawa,Canada 613-763-7482