🚀 go-pugleaf

hi,

i've just installed slackware v3.2 and i'm getting some worrying error
messages.

linux seems to recognise my hdd; it gives the following message when
booting:

hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A, 2014MB w/76kB cache, LBA, CHS=1023/64/63

The problems start when i try to write the partition table, with fdisk.
Fdisk gives the message:

Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.

However, if i reload fdisk it appears as if the partition table has been
written. (Although when i hit 'v' to verify the partition it says there
are 62 unallocated sectors.)

The next problem comes when i run setup. It gives the message:

Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
w(rite)

The strange thing is i only have three partitions!
Setup runs ok, apart from the warning, and i can install everything
without any problems.
My fdisk info is:

Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *        1        1      819  1651072+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2   *      820	    820	    1018   201184   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3	  1019     1019     1023    10080   82  Linux swap

Should i just ignore these messages, as everything appears to be working?

Any thoughts on what the problem could be would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,

Ben