how not to initialize HD

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Sat Jul 31 21:21:38 UTC 2010


On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
> # cfdisk -Ps
> FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial
> cylinder
>
> That's the one making trouble, and you indicated we can get rid of it now).
> ...
> /dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> ...
>
> Can you use the easier version of cfdisk ? Gives you display like that ?
> It would be easier for us to modify the layout with it.
> Btw, this is my disk ..

cfdisk with no arguements comes back with a blank screen and a line at the 
bottom that says:
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial 
cylinder
press any key to exit

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800 


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