[Gllug] UML and fdisk

[Vincent AE Scott]

JakeJ i dont have the original email to respond to, but heres what i
found on the UML list
create an empty file first, then started uml with 'ubda=disk_file'



To get the proper number of heads and sectors you have to set up the
geometry under the fdisk "x" expert menu
"h" heads is 128
"s" sectors is 32
"c" cylinders is then computed
uml always uses the same C*128*32 with 512 byte sectors.
fdisk can not autodetect since this is just a file and the magic ioctl
does
not work on files.
uml has to pick a geometry and picked the C*128*32 geometry as easy to
use
and allowing fairly large files.


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