From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: weird fdisk on slackware bootdisk Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 16:02:53 GMT
In article <1993Sep15.131236.2976@bmerh85.bnr.ca> mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>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.
The problem is that there is no 'standard' way of handling partitions above
the 1024 cylinder limit in the partition table. Thus any partition
extending above this limit may possibly be a source of difficulty
on a machine which adopts a solution different from that adopted in
the Linux fdisk. Still, I may be able to change the message to
be more helpful in the next revision.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk