fdisk -l smoothwall.img You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk smoothwall.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System smoothwall.img1 1 11 5543+ 83 Linux smoothwall.img2 12 44 16632 82 Linux swap / Solar is smoothwall.img3 45 240 98784 83 Linux smoothwall.img4 * 241 1015 390600 83 Linux