ERROR: Partition 4 extends beyond the end of the disk

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to install Solaris 10 on my x86 laptop. Everyting is OK until the start of the installation and as I try to start the installation it prints an error message:
ERROR: Partition 4 extends beyond the end of the disk
Output of sfdisk -l /dev/hda command is as follows:
Disk /dev/hda: 155061 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 20798- 20799- 10482381 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)
/dev/hda2 20798+ 20829 32- 15907+ be Solaris boot
/dev/hda3 20830 53565 32736 16498944 bf Unknown
/dev/hda4 53568 155060 101493 51152472 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,33,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,80,63)
/dev/hda5 53568+ 138900 85333- 43007800+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 138901+ 142869 3969- 2000344+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 142870+ 155060 12191- 6144232+ 83 Linux
I'm trying to install boot partition on /dev/hda2 and the Solaris on /dev/hda3.
Is there any way to overcome this error without repartitioning the disk ?

Answer 1

I agree that there is no obvious error from the data you've provided.
What version of Solaris are you running
uname -a
Are you using a SCSI disk or a SATA drive?
On Solaris it affect which driver we use.
I've very curious what the geometry stored in the Solaris disk label is.
Would it be possible for you to dump the fdisk partition table
and the Solaris disk labels and vtoc and send them to me.
dd if=/dev/dsk/c0d0p0 of=/tmp/mbr count=1
dd if=/dev/dsk/c0d0p2 of=/tmp/pbr count=3
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As a workaround:
Since partition is 82 is a linux swap partition, it should be relatively easy to
shrink that partition by a few cylinders and then run makeswap
with no loss of information.