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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