sfdisk: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary - how to fix it?

Radu Cornea ccradu at yahoo.com
Fri May 21 15:55:32 UTC 2004


On 5/21/2004 6:24 AM, Mariano Draghi wrote:
  > Ok, but how do I run that sfdisk? I can't run it with the disk mounted,
> can I?
> 
> And apart from that, I have changed the access mode in the BIOS to LBA. 
> Should I turn it to 'auto' before runnig this command? Does this make 
> any difference?
> 
> I'm sorry... so many questions :(
> 

You would have to boot from a rescue CD (or the first CD form Fedora 
Core 1), or a Knoppix CD.

Then run

chroot /mnt/sysimage

and the sfdisk command.

-- 
Radu





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