On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: ->I'm guessing it's that the boot disks from Debian are from the ->kernel 2.0.x series. It may report different values to fdisk. ->Actually, it seems that the debian 2.1 fdisk (kernel 2.0.x) are ->reporting physical disk geometry, while the other distros ->(probably using kernel 2.2.x series) report translated (lba) ->geometry. ->
Thanks for the reply. I always create a /boot partition of 15MB, there was no problem working with the disk. What amaged me was the geometry problem. As you said it could be due to 2.0.x series kernel. I will upgrade the kernel and see if there is any change. Thanks Nagarjuna ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nagarjuna G. Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai. INDIA Phones: Office: 556 7711, 555 4712, 555 5242 Residence: 2155604 Fax: 091 - 22 - 556 6803 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
