Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:27:28 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry" |
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> > 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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