Re: partition does not end on cylinder boundary error. FIXED
Hi,
On 20 Feb 2002, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> tried booting into win98 again and it worked. LILO was still giving me
> trouble when running it(NOT when booting) - something along the lines
> of,
>
> Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 1st entry
> 3D address: 32/1/0 (94)
> Linear address: 1/1/0 (63)
>
> I have partition magic 6 installed and when I ran that - it told me that
> there were some mismatches between the LBA and CHS values and offered to
> fix them - I said yes.
>
> Back in Linux now (and feeling much better) I checked with fdisk and
> there doesn't seem to be a problem with that partition anymore and lilo
> seems to run fine as well.
>
So basically you ran partition magic, fixed the problem and now everything
works fine? Great. I became curious, so could you please send me another
fdisk -l an fdisk -l -u from your current situation? Let's see how it's
solved.
> BTW, do you know of any software that would be able to do something
> similar in Linux ?
>
Hmmm, not really. I guess fdisk is all you have and if you know how to
work with the data and how the disk is constructed, it's all you need. But
it is pretty bare bone, yes.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
> Thanks for all your help, much appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Shri
>
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