Bug#208809: partition problem

[svens <svens@latsoft.com>]

Hi 

You should install new kernel 2.4.22, and set first partition as swap(size 
1.5GB). Without swap as first partition, linux will not boot on big harddisks.

  

alain.roos@degussa.com wrote:

> Package: cdrom
> Version: Debian 3.0 r0 i3
> 
> I recently buyed a AMD Athon based computer with Windows XP preinstalled
> 
> During installation, Fdisk is not capable of reading the partition table
> of my 160 GB ide disk
> Installation fails as it is not possible to create partitions to install
> Linux.
> 
> I do not want to erase the 75.20 Go primary partition which contains the
> Win XP installation (pre-installed,
> only the recovery CD is available, imoortant features for me not yet
> supported by linux drivers,e.g.
> video capture support for nVidia GEforce Fx chip).
> 
> When starting Win XP, partitions are reported as follows :
> primary C: 75.20 Go
> extended
> logical disk D: 996 Mo
> LD L: 67.01 Go
> LD E: 5.86 Go
> 
> When booting the Debian install disk , the cfdisk says :
> FATAL ERROR : Bad primary partition 1 : Partition ends after end-of-disk
> Press any key to exit cfdisk
> 
> I escaped to the shell, mounted a floppy with sfdisk and
> obtained :
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 16709 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *      0+   9816    9817- 78855021    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2       9817   19456    9640  77433300    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
>             start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1022,0,1)
>             end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1022,254,63)
> /dev/hda3          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
> /dev/hda4          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
> /dev/hda5       9817+   9943     127-  1020096    7  HPFS/NTFS
>             start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
> /dev/hda6       9944+  18691    8748- 70268278+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>             start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
> 
> I  succesfully installed a year ago that Distribution on a Pentium II
> laptop.
> 
> What can be done so that the the linux fdisk and Win XP are consistent and
> partitioning is safe ?
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help
> 
> Alain ROOS
> 
> mail : alain dot roos at degussa dot com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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