Hello all, I am attempting to install Solaris 10 on a partition on my harddrive. I am making it most of the way through the installation (I get to the "profile" page) but I get this error message:

ERROR: Partition 4 extends beyond the end of the disk (c0d0)

This is my disk layout (per fdisk):

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 11978 cylinders

Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 00 1 1 0 254 63 1023 63 62926542 83
2 80 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 62926605 77015610 bf
3 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 139942215 50138865 83
4 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 190081080 2345490 82

The math is computing for me, nothing is outside of hd parameters. I have also tried changing the partition order of 3 and 4 and got the same message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have met this error a couple of times with some disks. My understanding is Linux tools are ignoring BIOS reserved sectors located at the end of the disk and allow them to be used by the partition table. Solaris is more conservative and standard compliant and refuse to overwrite them.

The only workaround would be to reduce the last partition size to the what the BIOS disk geometry allows. Have a look at Solaris "fdisk -G" output.

Hi,all
as we know ,the partition has extended beyond the end of the disk.Why don't we adjust the margin to avoid the mistake . U can adjust the last cylinder little by little , and u can pass it sooner . That's what I've did .
good luck !