F7 says 4473 cylinders FC6 says 4864 cylinders
Jim Cornette
fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Feb 23 11:31:43 UTC 2007
Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jerry Williams wrote:
>> This is the same hard drive only change is the version of Fedora that
>> is using it.
>>
>> If I load fc6 first and use all of the cylinders then Fedora 7
>> doesn't like it and wants to redo the partition table.
>>
>> Also noticed that grub.conf gets moved to grub.conf.rpmsave.
>> But if you already have a grub.conf.rpmsave it gets written over.
>> Also splash.xpm.gz gets written over.
>>
>> Fedora Core 6
>> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hda1 * 1 65 522081 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda2 66 702 5116702+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda3 703 1339 5116702+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda4 1340 4473 25173855 5 Extended
>> /dev/hda5 1340 1976 5116671 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda6 1977 2107 1052226 82 Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> /dev/hda7 2108 4473 19004863+ 83 Linux
>>
>> Fedora 7
>> Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36791903232 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4473 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sda1 * 1 65 522081 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda2 66 702 5116702+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda3 703 1339 5116702+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda4 1340 4473 25173855 5 Extended
>> /dev/sda5 1340 1976 5116671 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda6 1977 2107 1052226 82 Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> /dev/sda7 2108 4473 19004863+ 83 Linux
>>
>>
>
> I am getting differences between FC6 and FC7 also.
>
> FC6:
> fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 3000 24097468+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 3001 3013 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 3014 5563 20482875 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 5564 7297 13928355 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 5564 7297 13928323+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> Development:
Adding header info 56.9 GB vs. 60 GB:
Disk /dev/sda: 56.9 GB, 56902596096 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6918 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 3000 24097468+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 3001 3013 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 3014 5563 20482875 83 Linux
> /dev/sda4 5564 7297 13928355 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 5564 7297 13928323+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> anaconda crash:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229745
>
> no lvm swap able to turn on:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229745
>
> Jim
>
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