The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865. 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): Expert command (m for help): Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID 1 80 1 1 0 15 63 1023 63 1034145 83 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) 2 00 0 1 1023 15 63 1023 1034208 2233728 83 Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) 3 00 0 1 1023 15 63 1023 3267936 65350656 83 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) 4 00 0 1 1023 15 63 1023 68618592 9546768 05 Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) 5 00 1 1 1023 15 63 1023 63 8676801 83 6 00 1 1 1023 15 63 1023 63 869841 82 Expert command (m for help):