F7 says 4473 cylinders FC6 says 4864 cylinders

[Jim Cornette]

Jerry Williams wrote:
> This is the same hard drive only change is 
> the version of Fedora that is using it.
> 
> If I load fc6 first and use all of the cylinders then Fedora 7
> doesn't like it and wants to redo the partition table.
> 
> Also noticed that grub.conf gets moved to grub.conf.rpmsave.
> But if you already have a grub.conf.rpmsave it gets written over.
> Also splash.xpm.gz gets written over.
> 
> Fedora Core 6
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1          65      522081   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2              66         702     5116702+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3             703        1339     5116702+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda4            1340        4473    25173855    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5            1340        1976     5116671   83  Linux
> /dev/hda6            1977        2107     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda7            2108        4473    19004863+  83  Linux
> 
> Fedora 7
> Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36791903232 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4473 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          65      522081   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              66         702     5116702+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda3             703        1339     5116702+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4            1340        4473    25173855    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            1340        1976     5116671   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            1977        2107     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda7            2108        4473    19004863+  83  Linux
> 
> 

I am getting differences between FC6 and FC7 also.

FC6:
fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        3000    24097468+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            3001        3013      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            3014        5563    20482875   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            5564        7297    13928355    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            5564        7297    13928323+  8e  Linux LVM

Development:

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3000    24097468+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            3001        3013      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            3014        5563    20482875   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            5564        7297    13928355    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            5564        7297    13928323+  8e  Linux LVM

anaconda crash:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229745

no lvm swap able to turn on:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229745

Jim

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