Fixing setup-storage_no-cylinder-boundaries

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Mon Mar 14 22:30:26 CET 2011


[...]
> 
> > - 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.
> 
> 256 was from the top of my head, it's whatever space is needed at the
> start of the extended partitions area. ISTR it's 256 bytes, but I could
> be wrong.
> 

JFTR: according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record it is 512
bytes; I'm now changing this in setup-storage and hope it doesn't break any
setups... (shouldn't change any layout with alignments >= 512B, which should
always be the case I'd assume).

Best regards,
Michael

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