14.1 Gig drive on a 770Z

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On 14 Apr, Rob Mayoff wrote:
>
> 	Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> 	Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
> 
> 		 Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> 	/dev/hda1   *        18      441  3205408+   b  Win95 FAT32
> 	/dev/hda2             1       17   128488+  83  Linux native
> 	/dev/hda3           442     1491  7938000    f  Win95 Extended (LBA)
> 	Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> 			 phys=(1023, 239, 63) logical=(1490, 239, 63)
> 	/dev/hda5           442      864  3197848+  83  Linux native
> 	/dev/hda6           865      881   128488+  82  Linux swap
> 	/dev/hda7           882      915   257008+  83  Linux native
> 	/dev/hda8           916      949   257008+  83  Linux native
> 	/dev/hda9           950     1491  4097488+  83  Linux native

Interesting -- you get the same message about the differeing phys/log
endings -- do you have any trouble accessing those partitions? I have
not tried since I saw that message... 

> I used PartitionMagic to move the original Windows 98 partition (hda1)
> up a bit, leaving a 128M hole at the beginning of the disk. I used that
> hole for my root partition (hda2). LILO handles it with no problem
> because it's entirely within the first 1024 cylinders. Here's my
> lilo.conf:

My root partition is under 1024 as well, and I have no problems booting
the machine. Maybe I should just mount the partition and see what
happens. It doesn't sound like you're experiencing any problems.


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