[LUG] MDK10 and partition problems

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I though i would give Mandrake 10 Community ago as I have basicly knackered 
9.2 by continual fiddling :-) (but thats the fun isn't it!) Booted of the 
first CD, selected my keyboard and was told my "partition table is too 
corrupt" with an offer to wipe my HD clean, how nice.

Fdisk dosn't think its "too corrupt" :->

[root@xxxxxxxxx robin]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4982. <- (is this ok?)
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      2455  19719756    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          2456      4982  20298096    5  Extended
/dev/hda5          2456      2486    248944+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          2487      2517    248944+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7          2518      2548    248976   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8          2549      2579    248976   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda9          2580      4982  19302034+  83  Linux

Any ideas how to check for /fix the problem or is this a bug in MDK10s 
installer? or are 4982 cylinders a problem?, I though that was just old 
software.

Thanks

Robin

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