Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7432
Problems trying to partition 10 G disk with Win98 & NT
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
I am having trouble adding new partitions for Linux above 8 gig. I have attempted to boot using boot: linux hda=1247,255,63 which matches my bios disk geometry. Each time I use fdisk to partition for a Linux Native & Linux swap, then try to verify the partition, I recieve errors " Warning: Partition 3 overlaps partition 4 Warning: Partition 3 overlaps partition 6 Warning: Partition 4 overlaps partition 6 184 unallocated sectors" When I try to use Disk Druid, it reports there is no free space. I have deleted and re created partitions, and try to continue with those errors, but when it comes to loading the programs the PC seems to hang. The Swap space seems to format OK. I found that initially I corrupted my NT partition. It seems to have deleted data and programs from the d:\winnt\system area, which was probably the first data to be written to that partition. I initially created the first disk partition with Windows98 as a 16 bit 2 gig partition. I then used Win NT to create an extended 6 gig partition, and split this into 2 logical drives D: (for NT) 2 GIG, and E: 4 gig. Linux fdisk reports the following partition table: Start End ID System /tmp/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 DOS 16 Bit >=32M /tmp/hda2 262 1024 6128797 + 5 Extended /tmp/hda3 1026 1215 1526175 83 Linux Native /tmp/hda4 1216 1247 257040 82 Linux Swap /tmp/hda5 262 516 2048256 6 DOS 16 Bit >= 32M /tmp/hda6 517 1024 4080478 6 DOS 16 Bit >= 32M However, when you view the partition table in expert mode, the values do indeed seem to overlap. I can provide those numbers seperately if you require. It may be relevant to note that when using NT to create the extended partition, it could only see 8 gig of the 10 gig disk.
Created attachment 19 [details] Printout of FDISK partition table - expert mode
Problem found to be that system was actually formatting partition (I think). Seemed to get no response for 20 - 30 minutes during this formatting, with no indication to the operator that the system was formatting or still working (such as a bar graph), leading me to conclude that the system had frozen.