[Nottingham] Partition problem

[Martin]

Michael Leuty wrote:
[...]
> partition, and when I changed the hard disk settings in the BIOS from
> "Auto" to "LBA" all was sweetness and light. It seems that the partition
> created by WinXP install did not end on a cylinder boundary. After
[...]
> 
> Quite a successful disaster really. Thanks again for your help.

All good stuff. Thanks for posting the fix.

And "LBA" answers Duncan's disk concerns from earlier. It overcomes any 
worries about differing disk geometries should you want to do a "dd" 
directly from one disk to another.


Happy hackings,
Martin

Mandrake 9.2 GNU Linux, & ReiserFS(!)


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