Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 2004 20:36:09 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting |
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On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:04:03PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> So it seems that the 2.6.x geometry code breaks dual booting, since > Windows wants "sane" CHS values. See the thread on slashdot, or > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html > > Although Fedora Core is current taking grief for this, it's really a > 2.6.x kernel problem AFAICT. > > Has anybody taken the time to hunt down the csets that cause this > massive partition table breakage? If so, it will save me some time > tracking this down.
Hi Jeff,
The link you give describes a user space problem. The fdisk versions that I maintain all work fine - apparently Fedora Core uses something else to change partition tables, and that something else makes assumptions that are invalid. (Maybe it uses parted?)
I can tell you in great detail all about disk geometry, and the 2.4 situation and the 2.6 situation.
Andries aeb@cwi.nl
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