Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:10:36 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Szakacsits Szabolcs <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> Just ask yourself this question: does Windows XP require a bootable > partition to start below the 1024 cylinder mark? > Windows NT4 has such a restriction. Not Windows 2000 or XP.
Wrong: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282191
> > > Usually booting goes like this: the BIOS reads sector 0 (the MBR) > > > from the first disk, and starts the code found there. What happens > > > afterwards is up to that code. If that code uses CHS units to find > > > a partition, and if the program that wrote the table has different > > > ideas about those units than the BIOS, booting may fail. > > Exactly. > Good. We agree.
I'm glad also. So what actually [cs]fdisk do with the CHS entries in the partition table? Ignore them? Might they convert a given partition start to different CHS units if the partition entry was deleted then recreated at the same cylinder?
AFAIS, parted tries hard not to break these [IMHO correctly], right Andrew?
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