Fixing setup-storage_no-cylinder-boundaries

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Thu Mar 10 15:23:29 CET 2011


Hi again,

> >>  - 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.
> 

I'd have two more questions:

- By default P1 should start at sector 63, yes, but shouldn't align-at override
  that as well?
- For P5, could you give me pointers for the 256B-value? I thought (and this is
  what I implemented) that it was one head, but I might be wrong.

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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