sfdisk errors

[Holger Mense]

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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Thomas Lange wrote:

> >>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:44:43 +0200 (MEST), Holger Mense <hmense at math.uni-paderborn.de> said:
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>     > It looks like, that sfdisk now wants to use a different harddisk geometry
>     > from the first partitioning. As a result, sfdisk isn't able to takeover
>     > the layout and wants to do a new paritioning. However, I don't want it to
>     > do so :)
> I also encounterd this problem when moving from a 2.2 to a 2.4 kernel
> long time ago. I just repartitioned the hard disks :-( I'm not sure if
> you can solve it in a better manner.

I just found this posting
http://groups.google.de/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/bbb3eb44a1937025/284f610313fd6511

I am not sure, if doing it this way is good idea. The last paragraph
about some unsupported hardware by the propagated solution does not sound
nice. Hmpf.

Thank you for your response.

Holger Mense

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Holger Mense
Rechnerbetrieb Mathematik                          Tel.: 0 52 51 / 60 34 94
Universität Paderborn                      http://www.math.uni-paderborn.de
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