Fixing Cyclinder Boundary Errors

[Mr.Shifty]

hi all im still stuck with this problem.thus im still forced to boot via floppy

according to my fdisk display im geting a cyclinder boundary error

now my hard drive is a ibm 30gb

the 2 partitions that get effected are always the first 2 no matter what partition setup i do for an example

partition 2 does not end on a cyclinder boundary: PHYS=(542,16,48)Should be(542,63,32)
this is for a dual boot win2k/linux set up
hda1 is a 1gb / partition
hda2 is a 2gb partition for win2k system files running via ntfs
hda3 is a 256mb linux swap
hda4 is extended
hda5 is 8gb fat32 (windows none system files)
hda6 is roughly another 8.5gb for /usr
hda7 is the remainder for /home

im not sure if im makeing an error in my scheme or what. so my question is is there a way to fix this problem? if so how? or where should i go for related material

thanx in advance for the help :)

[bdg1983]

What did you use to do all the partitioning? I really don't know how you could fix the problem unless something like Partition Magic or GNU Parted could fix the boundary error.

Are these new installs of Linux and W2K so it wouldn't hurt too much if you deleted everything and started again?

Try just using 1 primary partition for W2K and then use logicals for everything else. Or maybe put the W2K primary partition first and then '/' next as primary and then put all the others in logicals including the swap which you now have in a primary.

[Mr.Shifty]

ill try that thanx :)