Re: Install problem

[Mike Gallagher <emrldsky primenet com>]

O.K. -
1. Boot Linux from floppies - boot, RamDisk 1 & 2.
2. Accept defaults through all the screens until the task to partition
disks.
3. The screen then lists 3 partitions and what it found for each of
them.
/dev/hda 128 heads	63 sectors	935 cylinders
/dev/hdb 255 heads	63 sectors	851 cylinders
/dev/hdc 255 heads	63 sectors	851 cylinders

I then select /dev/hdc since ( and I am guessing ) that that is the free
space on spindle 2 - no DOS partition.
fdisk then returns the following:
You will not be able to write the partition table.
You must set heads sectors and cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.
Warning: Invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
write.

If I use cfdisk I get 0 returned for sectors, heads, and cylinders of
/dev/hdc.

If I go to fdisk from the virtual console, I get the same message block.

Mike G.


Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> Mike Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > Kevin -
> > With the partition deleted, I tried again going through the boot which
> > went well. However, when I use fdisk to work the old L: partition, it
> > returns with the message "cannot write information for hd... )"
> >  If I use the graphical version (cfdisk) - it returns 0 for each entry
> > of head, sector and cylinder information.
> 
> Hmmm...  Could you post the original output of fdisk's list and
> exactly
> what you then try to do?  This just doesn't make sense to me.
> 
>         - Kevin Colby
>           kevinc grainsystems com
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