# fdisk -l You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk /dev/sda: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 25 195313 83 Linux Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 35) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(24, 80, 60) /dev/sda2 * 25 633 4882812+ 83 Linux Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(24, 80, 61) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(632, 50, 55) /dev/sda3 634 1240 4875727+ 83 Linux Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1239, 254, 63) /dev/sda4 1241 4037 22466902+ 5 Extended Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1240, 0, 1) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(4036, 254, 63) /dev/sda5 1241 1848 4883728+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 1849 2456 4883728+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 2457 3064 4883728+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 3065 4037 7815591 82 Linux swap / Solaris