Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary.

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:23:38 -0700, lbrtchx wrote:

Hi,
~
I am trying to use Linux fdisk to prepare a disk to install Windows
98 afterwards
~
I need to set the following partitions
~
1.) primary ntfs (Windows XP)
2.) primary vfat (Windows 98)
3.) primary vfat (Windows Applications)
// - - - - - - -
4.) extended
5.) logical vfat (Data)
6.) logical ext3 (backup, maintenance ...)
~
After setting up my partitions using fdisk and using mkfs for each fs
type when I try to install Windows it is telling disk (partition) so
and so hasn't been formatted and then that it is corrupted and it
would abbort the installation ...
~
<snip>

Just to be clear, did you start with a totally empty partition table and
were you using Linux's fdisk to initially setup the disk? The
partition table is cleared with the 'o' command, IIRC. Then, the next step
is to allocate space for each partition, as you apparently did.

Caveat: I am not running Windows 98. I ran MS-DOS, then Windows NT 3.51. I
skipped Windows 95 and Windows 98. MS should have skipped them too, IMO.

One more gotcha to watch out for:
Even if you did it exactly right, there could still be problems with
older OSs, such as MS-DOS and Windows 98. If the disk is larger
than the OS is capable of addressing then it may not see the total
capacity, or use an incompatible addressing mode. For today's large disks
you want to make sure that all OSs are using LBA. Otherwise, you
are asking for trouble- either right now or some time down the road.
You can put Windows98 on its own disk, or else forgo using it all, IMO.

The last time I saw this question, I posted this:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/ccb9cd221a06d063

--
Douglas Mayne
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