root@gentoo-mips-20040627 colo-1.22 # fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 77545.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          98       49360+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2              99       77545    39033288    5  Extended
/dev/hda5              99       19475     9765976+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           19476       20468      500440+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7           20469       77545    28766776+  83  Linux

Command (m for help):