Observe the session transcripts below. The first bug is the coredump.
The second bug is where it won't let me recreate hda3 after having deleted it, claiming that I'm only allowed to go up to cylinder 2047 for some reason. If I delete hda4 too it will let me do it, and then I can recreate hda4 so that it looks the same as it was. When I did this for real I gave up on fdisk at that point, not trusting it to have done hda3 and hda4 correctly (hda4 has a filesystem that I don't want to disturb). cfdisk was perfectly happy to delete hda3 and recreate it. More information on request. Ian. -chiark:~> fdisk /dev/hda You will not be able to write the partition table. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2477. This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2477 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1 1679 846184+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 1024 1680 1718 19656 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 1024 1719 2227 256536 5 Extended /dev/hda4 2048 2228 2477 126000 83 Linux native /dev/hda5 1024 1719 2227 256504+ 83 Linux native Command (m for help): x Expert command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2477 cylinders Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID 1 00 1 1 0 15 63 1023 63 1692369 83 2 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 1692432 39312 82 3 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 1731744 513072 05 4 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 2244816 252000 83 5 00 15 63 1023 15 63 1023 63 513009 83 Expert command (m for help): r Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-5): 5 Segmentation fault (core dumped) -chiark:~> fdisk /dev/hda You will not be able to write the partition table. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2477. This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-5): 3 Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 3 First cylinder (1719-2477): 1719 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK ([1719]-2047): 2227 Value out of range. Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK ([1719]-2047): 2047 Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-4): 3 Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-4): 4 Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 3 First cylinder (1719-2477): 1719 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK ([1719]-2477): 2227 Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 4 First cylinder (2228-2477): 2228 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK ([2228]-2477): 2477 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2477 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1 1679 846184+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 1024 1680 1718 19656 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 1024 1719 2227 256536 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 2048 2228 2477 126000 83 Linux native Command (m for help): q -chiark:~> dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 | uuencode hda.bootsector begin 664 hda.bootsector 1+0 records in 1+0 records out M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````0$` [EMAIL PROTECTED](/__\0TQD`D)D````/__\%#___H&P:`##4!P`` [EMAIL PROTECTED](@[EMAIL PROTECTED],`5:H/ ` end -chiark:~> dd if=/dev/hda3 bs=512 count=1 | uuencode hda3.bootsector begin 664 hda3.bootsector 1+0 records in 1+0 records out M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` M````````````````````````````````````````````````````````#___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]<````````````````````````````````````````````` 1````````````````````5:H` ` end -chiark:~>
