Re: parted malfunctioning on an older disk ? 500Mo limit related ?

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:50:49AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:11:41PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > But parted doesn't like it because of :
> > 
> >   Using /dev/ide/host0...
> >   No implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.
> >   Need to add support for this.
> >   Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/...
> >   is 4092/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M
> > 
> > This was after having added a two partitions (cyl 1 to 496 and cyl 497
> > to end_of_disk) with the debian-installer stuff.
> 
> It looks like you have a pc98 (not msdos) partition table.

Well, it is not me, but indeed i seem to remember a mention in that bug
report about pc98. Would the right solution here be to use a msdos
partition table ? I will ask Eugenia about it.

> On pc98 (at the time this code was written), the BIOS/Linux worked
> together nicely to get this info reliably.

Ok, my knowledge of these stuff is rather limited.

Friendly,

Sven Luther