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Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Jul 2, 2004 11:21 UTC (Fri) by nigelhorne (guest, #22757)
Parent article: Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

I tried the sfdisk command but got this max[imum] allowable size error.

[root@njh root]# sfdisk -d /dev/hdb | egrep -v '^(Warning|DOS)' | sfdisk
--no-reread -H255 /dev/hdb
Warning: HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 16 heads

Disk /dev/hdb: 77545 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 0+ 690 691- 5550426 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2 691 4864 4174 33527655 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb3 2989 4293 1305 10482412+ a5 FreeBSD
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdb5 691+ 848 158- 1269103+ 82 Linux swap
start: (c,h,s) expected (691,1,1) found (1023,15,63)
end: (c,h,s) expected (848,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hdb6 1714+ 2988 1275- 10241406 b W95 FAT32
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hdb7 4294+ 4865- 572- 4590904+ 83 Linux
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,7,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hdb8 2989 3005- 17- 131072
/dev/hdb9 3005+ 3133- 129- 1032368
/dev/hdb10 3133+ 3166- 33- 262144
/dev/hdb11 3166+ 3199- 33- 262144
/dev/hdb12 3199+ 4293 1095- 8794684+
Warning: given size (9181809) exceeds max allowable size (0)

sfdisk: bad input
[root@njh root]#

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Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Jul 2, 2004 17:24 UTC (Fri) by Nemesis (guest, #22765) [Link]

I got the same error :-/

Here it is:
[root@localhost ant]# /sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/hda | /sbin/sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda
Warning: HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 16 heads

Disk /dev/hda: 158816 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 3823 3824- 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hda2 3824 260- 263786- 2118855944 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (260,3,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hda3 8318 9963 1646 13221495 83 Linux
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,2,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda5 3824+ 3855 32- 257008+ 82 Linux swap
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
/dev/hda6 3856+ 8317 4462- 35840983+ 83 Linux
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,15,63)
Warning: given size (4237711888) exceeds max allowable size (2489946480)

sfdisk: bad input

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Jul 17, 2004 16:57 UTC (Sat) by thenads (guest, #23106) [Link]

yeah i had the same error...

Tried using the --force command which seemed to do the trick, but threw up some other errors later on. Rebooted and windows ran ok, but trying to create a partition in the blank space on the drive under XP's disk manager brought up an error.

Would fixmbr solve this, and if not, anyone know what would be the best option?

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Jul 23, 2004 23:08 UTC (Fri) by tolandmike (guest, #23382) [Link]

I get the same problem; have you found a fix for it yet?

-jk