The number of cylinders for this disk is set to ...

[joneall]

I get the following message from fdisk on /dev/hda:

$ sudo fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

But the command fdisk -l isn't worried:

$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 61 489951 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 62 1277 9767520 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1278 1399 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 1400 3101 13671315 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1400 2615 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2616 2858 1951866 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2859 3101 1951866 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 8 11480 92156872+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Should I be? I do boot from this disk, by using the computer's setup options and selecting that disk, rather than the sata disk with Windows on it.

[sky]

Re: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to ...

Hi,

No you shouldn't be, in fact, the best is to keep a /boot partition under the 1024 limit of cylinders, but I guess it's not a problem anymore as almost everyone now are over this limit...

Hope it helps

[joneall]

Re: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to ...

Aha, it's mainly the boot partition. Yes, that helped. Thanks.