Here is what your disk probably looks like with bigdisk:

Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 16709 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device    Start     End    Blocks    Id  System
/dev/hda1     1      11     88326     5  Extended
/dev/hda2    12      16     40162+   83  Linux
/dev/hda3    17      21     40162+   10  OPUS
/dev/hda4    22   16709 134110620    83  Linux
/dev/hda5     1       3     24034+   83  Linux
/dev/hda6     4       5     64228+   82  Linux swap

Or, viewed differently:

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
 1 00   1   1    0 254  63   10       63   176652 05
 2 00   0   1   11 254  63   15   176715    80325 83
 3 00   0   1   16 254  63   20   257040    80325 10
 4 00   0   1   21 254  63 1023   337365268092720 83
 5 00   2   1    0 254  63    2       63    48069 83
 6 00   1   1    3 254  63   10       63   128457 82


The master partition table is always at sector 0.
The first extended partition list entry is always at sector 63.

But where is the second one, for the swap partition?
It will be at (63 + 48069 + 63) = 48195.

You can verify this, after running the bigdisk_builder (but before installing the software), using this command:
/bin/read_sector.sh 48195

The last line of output should end in 55 aa.

And sure enough, my off by one error in the last attempt would have missed preventing that from being overwritten..

So the current v8 should actually work, I think.

Cheers



Edited by mlord (10/04/2008 12:53)