sfdisk: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary - how to fix it?
Radu Cornea
ccradu at yahoo.com
Fri May 21 06:44:06 UTC 2004
On 5/20/2004 10:21 PM, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> [root at home mariano]# /sbin/sfdisk -l /dev/hda
> Disk /dev/hda: 158816 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
> DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
> Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 0+ 20320- 20321- 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 20321 20522 202 101808 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 20523 81661 61139 30814056 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/hda4 81663+ 158801- 77138- 38877300 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 83735+ 124376- 40641- 20482843+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda6 124376+ 126455 2080- 1048194 82 Linux swap
>
It looks like the number of heads was changed to 16 just like in my
case. Try this fix (first backup your partition table - the mbr sector):
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg02143.html
Use 255 instead of 240, that was for my hard drive (a smaller, 20Gb).
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Radu
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