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Bug#208809: partition problem



On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Sounds like the kernel is not able to read the full disk. 160GB is
> larger than old-style IDE hardware can address, and so older kernels
> will not support it.

I can confirm this, I hit the same problem about a year ago.

> I'm not sure if the 2.4.18 kernel available on the Woody install CDs will
> work here, but it's worth a try.

At the time I installed, bf2.4 didn't help - the relevant patch had not
made it into the main kernel tree, it was only in -ac. But I don't remember
whether bf2.4 used 2.4.16 or 2.4.18 then.

A workaround is to install using a filing system which you can later (once
a newer kernel is installed) grow beyond the 128G mark. These days, AFAIK
ext2, reiserfs and xfs allow resizing of the filesystem - I'd go for 
reiserfs!

In contrast to Alain I started off with an unpartitioned HD, so cfdisk just
reported a size of 128G. Alain, to make cfdisk accept the HD, you should
try deleting _under_Windows_ the partition(s) on the disk which lie beyond
128G (L: AFAICT). The XP partition manager has a nice graphical display of
where the partitions are located on disk, they should be easy to identify.

Cheers,

  Richard

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