14.1 Gig drive on a 770Z

[linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com]

Hi!

First of all, thanks to Bill for setting up a sweet page for the
ThinkPad.

I just got a 770Z with the 14.1" PII-366 and a 14.1Gb hard drive. Sweet
machine, with one minor problem. Here is the output of fdisk:

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      277  2094088+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2           278      412  1020600   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3           413      430   136080   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4           431     1825 10546200    f  Win95 Extended (LBA)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 239, 63) logical=(1824, 239, 63)
/dev/hda5           431      633  1534648+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6           634      836  1534648+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda7           837      971  1020568+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda8           972     1825  6456208+  83  Linux native            

I set up this partitioning scheme while in Windows, using partition
magic 4.0. The windows box knew about the large disk drive and detected
it properly. Linux on the other hand, thinks this disk only has 1023
cylinders, when in reality it does have 1824 cylinders as the partition
table suggests.

I tried adding 'linear' into the lilo.conf, but that just hung the
machine after 'L' in the LILO boot sequence.

Any ideas what this might be?


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