Michael Curry wrote:
At 05:22 PM 3/27/99 -0500, zentara wrote:
The booting partition can't "straddle" the 1024 cylinder limit from what I've read.
Actually, the real problem is that fdisk doesn't want to let me create any sort of partition that goes past cylinder 1024. Here's the relevant info from YaST's partitioning screen:
As for /dev/hda1, that's currently my Win98 partition and I'd prefer to keep it that way if at all possible.
Partition Magic lets you move things around and create a little space at the beginning of a drive. I do remember having a similar problem with a big hard drive, where yast and fdisk complained about not being able to do what I asked. It turned out to be the "Drive Rocket" or other similar bios adaptor software . This usually gets installed on any windows machines with big drives. I had to use a floppy boot disk which contained the bios adaptor software, then disable it. It is actually an electronic switch on the hard drive electronics, from what I remember. Then I went back into linux fdisk, and could do exactly what I wanted, with no "error messages" about cylinders. All I needed was LBA chosen for the drive in the motherboard bios. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>