Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry"

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 09:41:44 EST


On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 05:18:00PM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote:

> The script does use sfdisk to aquire the size and the user tells it just how
> large the partition to be and defaulting to the largest possible. If the
> geometry is wrong, the other OS won't boot.

What interests me is: do you need varying geometry?
That is: do you sometimes need */16/63 and sometimes */255/63
or even other values?

Or does it suffice to take */255/63 always?



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