"Bad Geometry"

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

>-----Original Message-----

>
>On Monday 06 June 2005 08:20 am, crash3m wrote:
>
>> you might try accessing a virtual console and see if 
>> fdisk/cfdisk isn't
>> still available.  IIRC FC3's installer has busy box -w- fdisk... just
>> a thought
>	
>For that matter I can boot to Gentoo and run fdisk.  What's the point?


You might try to run QTParted from a Knoppix disk or other LiveCD.  

I've had what seems like a similar problem with Windows or Partition
Image (by Power Quest, the Partition Magic people), not liking the
beginning or ending place of partitions created in Linux.  Usually the
error I get is that the CHS (cylinder, head, sector) and LBA (logical
block addressing) figures don't match.  I haven't researched why this
happens though.  I've alternatively let Windows fix it and both Oses
were happy or ignore it with no ill effects.  

I imagine it is the info written to the partition table on the drive
that is not liked.