Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry"

[Wakko Warner]

> > 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?

I would say most cases use the 255/63, but I'm not 100% sure on that, just
with drives >4gb.  Is there anyway to query the bios to ask it?

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