Fixing setup-storage_no-cylinder-boundaries
Julien BLACHE
jblache at debian.org
Thu Mar 10 12:35:56 CET 2011
Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> wrote:
Hi,
>> - aligning the start position of partitions 1 and 5
>
> What is/was wrong with that?
P1 must start at sector 63, otherwise you lose compatibility with
previous versions. P5 must start at 256 bytes into its containing
primary partition, same reason.
>> - ignoring alignment constraints for the start of partitions 1 and 5 on
>> msdos disk labels
>
> Why is that necessary or why would you want to do that?
See above :)
JB.
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