Red Hat :: Error - "You Could Not Allocate The Cylinder Based Partition"
Oct 9, 2010
"You could not allocate the cylinder based partition". I am getting above error while trying to create disk partition in disk partitioning while Redhat installation.
i want to use dual boot system....windows 2003 and Redhat.Win 2003 is installed on 'C:' in my primary hard drive.i have one more hard drive on secondary IDE.secondary HDD having 13 GB unallocated partition. and i want to install Redhat on this partition. But while trying to create disk partition i am getting error "You could not allocate the cylinder based partition". it this time i can create only root or swap partition. plz tell me whats to do in such case.
If i create root partition of 11 GB and leave 2 GB for swap, then can i create swap partition after installation is finished. if yes the plz tell how to do this? Or i can allot 13 GB for Root partition and once installation finished i can create 2 GB swap partition from this 13 GB? Also i will like to know what kind of partitions i need to create at the time of installation????
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Jan 8, 2011
I want to install Arch Linux on my desktop, it is going to be a dual boot with Windows. I booted into the installation CD, but when I started cfdisk to partition my hard drive it gave me the following error: FATAL ERROR: Primairy parititon 1, partition ends in the final partial cylinder.The QuestionHow can I troubleshoot and fix this?Additional details
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Feb 11, 2010
I've been searching for a definitive answer/solution for this. Below are outputs from fdisk -l and a partition table listing from expert mode in fdisk. [root@ncc1701 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000265ce
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 39 307200 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 39 60801 488076288 83 Linux
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Some posts that I've come across indicate no problem while others indicate that it is an issue and needs to be corrected. sda1 is my /boot partition ~ 300MB and then sda2 is a LUKS volume with a LVM VG occupying the rest of the available 500GB hdd. It is my active F 12 system with no dual boot.
1. Is it a problem? 2.Can I just resize sda1 so the end does not overlap sda2? 3. And can I do this while booted from that system or do I need to do it from a LiveCD?
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Nov 12, 2010
i was looking at the list of my /dev/sda partition and on the first partition it says that it does not end on cylinder boundary. does is it need to be fixed? on a book that im reading it says that when you create a partition the end cylinder should be the size of the partition...
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Feb 22, 2011
I am preparing a dual boot system. Used gparted to do the partitioning. Unfortunately did not notice that one can choose to align on MB (default) or cyl (probably preferable) Now my setup is running ok but fdisk reports warnings like Partition 4 not on cylinder boundary
Looking up the net I see two conflicting views on this:
1. Forget it -- cylinders are not relevant on today's disks
2. For linux this is ok but windows may clobber the adjacent partition in such a 'non-aligned' partition
The real problem is that parted, gparted, fdisk etc are mutually inconsistent in what kind of partition table is 'good' and I dont know who to believe
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Jan 16, 2011
I have installed 10.04 LTS on a few computers lately (stuck at home due to recent surgery and am trying to kill some time) and have been running into some odd issues and cannot figure out what is going on. I am hoping someone can help me out here. The installation appears to work fine every time. The systems also appear to be running without any issues. The weird thing is that every time I run an fdisk -l command, I always get these types of messages:
Disk /dev/sda: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005437b
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cfdisk also gives similar errors:
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder. I am not doing anything out of the ordinary when installing Ubuntu (as far as i can tell that is). I am not pre-partitioning with external tools for example. I use the Ubuntu installer to setup my partitions.
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Mar 3, 2011
I have a 500g hard drive using dual boot win7 and ubuntu 10.04.2. The system is boot from MBR using Grub1.98. The partitioned as the follows:
system reserve100m ｜win7,42g｜software 100g｜empty 100g｜extended 253g
logic partition is as follows:
| ubuntu / 250g | swap 4g
Since I want to make use of the "empty" part. I delete it and the "software" partition under win7. Then I create a new partition on the part.
After I reboot my pc, the screen shows:
>> operating system no such partition.
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how to resize my partition table so I can KEEP MY DATA on the ubuntu / partition. Or someway I can get my ubuntu / partition back.
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Mar 29, 2009
I just downloaded the Fedora 10 cd yesterday and decided to install it. I had a partition for Fedora on my system before but I'm not really sure what I did to it. It wasn't booting and it has been so long since I messed with it I just decided to reinstall with the latest (I think I was running F9 previously). So I pop in the live CD, run the install, and then reboot into Ubuntu. I modified my menu.lst to include the new vmlinuz and initrd versions, as well as the new UUID of the partition. Now when I reboot and choose Fedora from grub's menu I get this error:
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Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
I found this wiki which does a pretty good job describing the problem:
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However, I'm still unable to get this to work. According to many different sites out there this problem shouldn't exist on newer computers. Well, I just recently put a new motherboard into this box -- it's this one:
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According to their BIOS page the first release of this was late November 2008. Yes they have had 2 updates since then but it looks like those only serve to support AM3 CPUs (which I don't have) or update some audio playback issues. I seriously doubt I need to update my BIOS to get this to work.
Here's my fdisk:
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$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I can get Slackware 12.1 to boot (though it kernel panics during startup...not sure what I did to make it angry), but grub immediately fails when I attempt to boot Fedora. Here's the entry from menu.lst:
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titleFedora 10 (on /dev/sdb1)
root(hd1,0)
kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=178bc9f9-76ba-48aa-a588-de978cc1eee1 rhgb quiet
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I have verified that the vmlinuz and initrd are both correct. I put the UUID in there after running vol_id so I'm sure the entry is solid. I have tried making it "root=/dev/sdb1" which failed with the same error, and I even tried copying the fc10 vmlinuz and initrd files over to my Ubuntu partition (which controls grub) but for some odd reason the cp command takes a really long time and then I eventually get this weird error for initrd:
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$ sudo cp /media/sdb1/boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img .
cp: reading `/media/sdb1/boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img': Input/output error
I got the same error with the dd command too. So I was going to just try and copy the files to my sdb3 partition and then modify the menu.lst entry appropriately but that doesn't seem to be plausible at this point.
I have a motherboard that was just released about 4 months ago, an Athlon X2 6000+ CPU, and 4gigs of RAM. The drives are both SATA 300 drives...it's not like this is some old Pentium Pro and the BIOS just doesn't support large drives...this is a brand new system with a very recent BIOS version.
I have successfully quadruple booted all of these in the past, but that may have been prior to the new motherboard. So that makes me think it could be something related to the motherboard but the thing is so much newer than what I previously had, certainly that can't be the problem...can it? Then I remember that Slackware boots, so if it's truly something about how the BIOS can't access some file beyond a particular section of the disk, then it doesn't make any sense that it can book slackware. Fedora is the first partition, Slackware is the last and is like 200+ GB into the disk.
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Dec 12, 2009
Error 18 - Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
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Error 18 - Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
After reading some of the info on Grub error 18 I decided to create a separate boot partition, as suggested. However, when trying to use Gparted from the live CD to create some space ahead of /sda1, Gparted would run for a while and then crash. The crash message says:
"e2fsck crashed with SIGSEGV in qsort" So now I am stuck, unable to boot from HDD and unable to create new partitions (the other partitions on the disk work fine with Gparted). Could all of this be due to corrupt /sda1 partition?
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Jan 24, 2011
I have a notebook with dual boot windows and Ubuntu 10.10 on a 80 Gig hard drive. The windows XP partition was initially installed and took up the whole drive (dev/sda1). I then freed up some space and created and installed Ubuntu (/dev/sda6) and swap (/dev/sda5) on an extended partition (/dev/sda2). Initially I only freed up 3.6 Gig which I thought would be more than enough but not any more. I cannot even install the updates as there is only 100 Meg left which is not enough. I then freed up more space (8 gig) from the windows partition to allocate to Ubuntu.
My problem is that I can't seem to find to now allocate this "freed-up" space to Ubuntu? I realise that I have to boot-up from a the Ubuntu live disk so that the hard drive is not mounted to allow changes but I'm still unable to change the partitions. I'm using GParted.
The drive looks like this currently:
[...NTFS] [...Unallocated] [...Extended{(ext4),(linux-swap)}]
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Below is a print out of my partition Table from Fdisk, in Cylinder mode, Sector mode, and then in expert mode?
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Code:
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sda1 199 ntfs
sda2 248,018 ntfs
Free 215,175
sda3 13,443 ntfs
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Java Version:
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java version "1.6.0_17"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.7.10) (rhel-1.20.b17.el5-i386)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)
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Code:
java -Xms512m -Xmx2600m -jar craftbukkit.jar nogui
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[root@server1 Minecraft]# java -Xms2600m -Xmx2600m -jar craftbukkit.jar nogui
[Lnet.minecraft.server.Statistic;@1319c
146 recipes
[Lnet.minecraft.server.Statistic;@1319c
16 achievements
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Do notice the line in the above quote ""sh": java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory."
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